226 Love Letters Written By Kurt Vonnegut
While cleaning out the attic in her family’s home in 2010 Edie Vonnegut made a huge discovery: a box filled with her father, Kurt Vonnegut’s, love letters to her mother, Jane Vonnegut. And now they can be read in the new book Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945.
Dictionaries Choose Same Word Of The Year
Dictionary.com and Merriam-Webster have each revealed their “word of the year,” and this should come as a shock to no one in the year 2020, they both chose the word “pandemic”. Dictionary.com: “The resilience and resourcefulness people confronted the pandemic with also manifested itself in tremendous linguistic creativity. Throughout 2020, our team has been tracking a growing body of so-called coronacoinages that have given expression—and have offered some relief from tragedy, some connection in isolation—to the lived experience of a surreal year.”
Ben Bova, Legendary Sci-Fi Author, Has Passed Away
Ben Bova, Hugo Award winning author of more than 120 science fiction and fact works, has passed away. Kathryn Brusco, his niece by marriage, posted the sad news on Twitter on November 29th that Bova passed away from “COVID-19 related pneumonia and a stroke. Needless to say, he will be missed terribly by us and the the world.”
Best Books Of 2020
Welcome, readers, to Book Riot’s guide to the best books of 2020!