Kurt and Bernard Vonnegut in the House of Magic

To the Best of Our Knowledge | Dec 31, 2015

Kurt Vonnegut joined his brother, Bernard, at General Electric in the late 1940s. Bernard was a scientist working on cutting-edge weather-control technologies while Kurt worked in G.E.'s PR department. Ginger Strand explains how Kurt's time at G.E. influenced his fiction.

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