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Interchange – Vonnegut on Tralfamadore: Billy Pilgrim and PTSD

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:03 — 81.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn his new book, The Writer’s Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five, author Tom Roston examines the connection between Kurt Vonnegut’s life and his anti-war novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. Roston spent some time researching his subject here in Bloomington, where the Lilly Library at Indiana University …

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Interchange – Tell It Slant: The Truth of the Bombs Bursting in Air

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:53 — 43.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday Bruce Franklin will be trying to connect lots of dots. He’lll argue, among other things, that we need to learn what three particular dead white guys are still trying to teach us. Two were bombardiers in WWII: Joseph Heller and Howard Zinn. One was bombed in …

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