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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Kurt Vonnegut and his son, Mark, recounted last night the turmoil that unfolded in their family after Mark began to suffer from mental illness...
...only did we see you crack when you went crazy, we saw something beautiful when you got well,” said Kurt Vonnegut. “The recovery was worth...
...wrote the book when I doubted I would get well,” said Mark Vonnegut...
When Random House signed publishing contracts in the '60s with such well-known authors as Kurt Vonnegut and William Styron, it included expansive language claiming all rights to publish the works in "book form." To the company's surprise, a federal appeals court recently affirmed a ruling that this language probably did not apply to electronic versions, or e-books. The lower court reasoned that because e-books are made up of changing digital signals sent over the Internet rather than of fixed texts on printed pages, they were not "books" under a traditional definition...
Verne and Vonnegut, Borges and Burgess, Lessing and LeGuin--they all wrote science fiction that was taken seriously during their lives. Philip K. Dick's work, no less serious or searching, was confined to the ghetto of SF (that's the short form, folks--never, ever sci-fi). He stalked through earthly life, through five wives, a drug addiction and a nervous breakdown, seeing his SF novels published in tatty Ace paperbacks, his other fiction regularly rejected. When he died, in 1982, at 53, mainstream readers didn't know Phil Dick...