Happy Birthday, Kurt Vonnegut
We’d like to wish a very happy birthday to the memory of Kurt Vonnegut. We share an interview, a few short stories, and a feature on the Vonnegut Library.
We’d like to wish a very happy birthday to the memory of Kurt Vonnegut. We share an interview, a few short stories, and a feature on the Vonnegut Library.
The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library plans to quadruple its floor space and become even more active in the Indianapolis community, but it needs the help of Vonnegut fans everywhere.
Jack and Jill Editor Corey Michael Dalton gives us the inside scoop on spending Banned Books Week locked up with Vonnegut.
Four years after his death, the often dark, sometimes antic, and frequently clairvoyant ideas of this great American novelist are suddenly more relevant than ever.
Examine some of Kurt Vonnegut’s personal artifacts that are on display at the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in downtown Indianapolis.
1973 saw the births of hip-hop, disco, the cell phone, and a certain telekinetic prom queen.
“It’s uncanny, Henry. It’s absolutely spooky. It hears my thoughts and answers them.”
Our latest issue offers a short story by Kurt Vonnegut, a profile of restaurateur and philanthropist José Andrés, and an interview with actor (and sometime Santa) Tim Allen, plus much more.
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Tracing its roots to Benjamin Franklin, The Saturday Evening Post mirrors cherished American ideals and values, most memorably illustrated by its iconic cover artist Norman Rockwell. The Post is also known for publishing such literary greats as Ray Bradbury, Agatha Christie, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edgar Allan Poe, J.D. Salinger, and Kurt Vonnegut, and continues to seek out […]
Over its 200-year history, the Post has borne witness to many of America’s most defining events.
“The watermelon he brought back was delicious, but while they were eating it Sharkey said something funny about seeds that made them all start to laugh as if they were laughing for the first time in their lives, and it seemed as if they couldn’t stop.”
Click on the author to see stories from that author, and an index to all of their work in the archive of The Saturday Evening Post: Agatha Christie Alice Duer Miller Anne Tyler Ben Ames Williams Bret Harte Booth Tarkington Carl Sandburg Dalton Trumbo Dorothy Parker Edith Wharton Edna Ferber Erle Stanley Gardner F. Scott […]
Media Contact: 317 634 1100 The Saturday Evening Post Turns 200! America’s Oldest Magazine! The history of the Post is the history of America INDIANAPOLIS — In 2021, The Saturday Evening Post is celebrating its 200th birthday. We are America’s oldest magazine, and through our decades of journalism, fiction, humor, and even advertisements, we […]
Our September/October issue tells the story of what President Eisenhower actually thought of Senator Joseph McCarthy, the best road trips in every state, fiction from Kurt Vonnegut, and more.
Depending on who you asked, the player piano was either a dismal metaphor for the decline of artistry or an exciting tool for democratizing the classics.