My books are being thrown out of school libraries all over the country — because they're supposedly obscene. I've seen letters to small-town newspapers that put Slaughterhouse-Five in the same class with Deep Throat and Hustler magazine. How could anybody masturbate to Slaughterhouse-Five?


Paris Review (Spring 1977)

Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

My books are being thrown out of school libraries all over the country — because they're supposedly obscene. I've seen letters to small-town...

My books are being thrown out of school libraries all over the country — because they're supposedly obscene. I've seen letters to small-town...

My books are being thrown out of school libraries all over the country — because they're supposedly obscene. I've seen letters to small-town...

My books are being thrown out of school libraries all over the country — because they're supposedly obscene. I've seen letters to small-town...