Kurt Vonnegut was one of the very few grandmasters of American literature, without whom the very idea of American literature would mean much less than it does.
Says editor Dan Wakefield, hIs writing “is done with such seemingly simple language and style that it sometimes seems shocking.”
Everyone is fussing about the departure of Walter Cronkite from the CBS Evening News–everyone that is except Cronkite.
The following speech was delivered this spring at Mark Twain's house in Hartford.