Look at the Birdie
Narrarated by: Henry Strozier, Christopher Evan Welch, John McDonough, Norman Dietz
© 2009 The Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Trust; Foreward by Sidney Offit
American literary icon Kurt Vonnegut enjoys immense popularity—and an equally immense amount of critical praise—for such works as his absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five. A must-have for readers everywhere, Look at the Birdie adds further insight into the author’s body of work with a riveting collection of his previously unpublished short fiction.
We tend to think of suicide as desperate and impulsive, but it's often unsettlingly deliberate. In September 2008, David Foster Wallace walked out onto the patio behind his California house, stood up on a lawn chair, made a noose out of a belt, looped one end around his neck and nailed the other to a wooden rafter overhead, bound his wrists with duct tape and hanged himself. Before he did, he wrote a note and left… more »