A Sad Loss So it went.

I never knew this about Kurt Vonnegut, which only makes me admire him more:

From 1947 to 1950, Mr. Vonnegut worked as a publicist for General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y., while writing short stories in his spare time. The first to be published appeared in Collier's in 1950. He moved to Cape Cod (Provincetown, later West Barnstable), taught high school English, worked with emotionally disturbed children, then managed the first Saab dealership in the nation.

Clearly, no overnight success....but what a fascinating life! It was easy to take Kurt Vonnegut for granted, because he was prolific. And his last book wasn't very good. (We should all have this problem, at age 82.)

Still, he was truly a singular American genius, wasn't he?  ¶ 8:21 AM