Also included in this volume is Vonnegut's last speech, as well as an assortment of his drawings, and an introduction by the author's son, Mark Vonnegut.
1. Your father first became enormously successful in the late 1960s, when the antiwar sentiments of Slaughterhouse-Five meshed perfectly with the anti-Vietnam War mood of the day. But he later expressed concerns
that his work was no longer relevant, that nobody read him anymore.
Now it seems that his sensibility is resonating once again.
His readership has always been large and loyal. Whenever he complained that no one outside of high school students read him anymore he was fluffing the balloon.
2. Living through the firebombing of Dresden by Allied forces in World War II was one of the central experiences of your father's life.
It was the direct inspiration for Slaughterhouse-Five, his most famous book, and it informed all of his other work. Did he talk about it within the family?
Was it something you were very aware of as you grew up?
Kurt Vonnegut
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