One of STML’s all-time favourite glacier-fighters, the great Kurt Vonnegut, author of such seminal works as Timequake, Breakfast of Champions and Slaughterhouse Five, has a new book out. Having nearly died in a house fire in 2000, and suffered the loss of his entire personal archive, Von’s humour certainly hasn’t got any less black. Reviews have been mixed, but you can get a fairly good idea of the tone of the book – a collection of pieces written for the alternative journal In These Times – from the hand-lettered inserts between chapters, sampled below and available online here.

STML, for one, hopes that the old master, who will be 83 this November, gets some more fiction out before he himself becomes mustard gas and roses…

(Via Rake).