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Kurt Vonnegut, perhaps the most-taken-for-granted of all our writers, died this week. No one has yet captured his unique blend of free thinking and self-deprecation, I think, although Tom Watson comes close for newcritics. For me, Vonnegut’s greatness came out of an unblinking insistence on the foolishness of arrogance, be it personal, military, or planetary.Continue reading “Kurt Vonnegut: The Master Who Insisted on Modesty”