Mon | APR 28 “Goodbye, palm trees,” reports the Press-Telegram in a story with its first sentence ghost-written by Kurt Vonnegut explaining how a debilitating fungus is about to wipe out a palm-tree population that costs too much to preserve. Replacements for the 2,900 reportedly unsalvageable Phoenix palms infected by fusarium—famous for killing thousands as [...]

Two-time Pulitzer winner, author of The Executioner’s Song dead at 84
Vonnegut died earlier this year, and now we say goodbye to Norman Mailer.
It was a shock to see him hobbling on two canes during interviews related to his last novel, The Castle in the Forest. But he was still a crank with a [...]