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RIP: Kurt Vonnegut

The literary world lost a giant Wednesday night, with the loss of Kurt Vonnegut. The New York Times reports, "Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American Counterculture, Dies at 84."

The lead graph explains:

Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle" and "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died Wednesday night in Manhattan. He was 84 and had homes in Manhattan and in Sagaponack on Long Island.

a little more on Vonnegut:
Vonnegut at the NY Times
Vonnnegut Website
Wikipedia's Vonnegut page
Vonnegut Web
Vonnegut Quotes at Quotations Pages
Vonnegut Quotes at WikiQuote
"Vonnegut's Apocalypse" at Rolling Stone

— michael | April 12, 2007 07:57 AM | I found it online