First Johnny's house, and now this?

[tikistitch]

Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American Counterculture, Dies at 84

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.

Mr. Vonnegut wrote plays, essays and short fiction. But it was his novels that became classics of the American counterculture, making him a literary idol, particularly to students in the 1960s and ’70s. Dog-eared paperback copies of his books could be found in the back pockets of blue jeans and in dorm rooms on campuses throughout the United States.

Comments

[leene-chan.livejournal.com]

That's really a shame. I just read an interview with him that was done last year. I thought he would be around forever!

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

I too am seriously bummed. He was one of my favorites.

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

And so it goes....

Kurt, you were the cornerstone of my youth.

PS. I'm firmly convinced that Johnny Cash's house burned down because it's an unholy sacrilege that one of the BeeGees should live there.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Somebody, I can't remember who, said, "It was God's way of seeing that nobody but JOHNNY could live in that house."