On Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five - I would hate to tell you what this lousy little book cost me in money and anxiety and time. – - I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still. Another thing they taught was that nobody was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Shortly before my father died he said to me, “You know – you never wrote a story with a villain in it.” I told him that was one of the things I learned...