Letters of Note by Shaun Usher

Author:Shaun Usher
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Compilation, Biography
ISBN: 9781908717696
Publisher: Unbound
Published: 2013-09-18T22:19:42+00:00

Letter No. 066

I AM VERY REAL

KURT VONNEGUT to CHARLES MCCARTHY

November 16th, 1973

Since first being published in 1967, and despite being considered one of the great modern novels, Kurt Vonnegut’s time-hopping, semi-autobiographical, anti-war classic, Slaughterhouse-Five, has been, and continues to be, banned from classrooms and libraries the world over due to what is often described by those who censor it as its “obscene” content. This view wasn’t held by Bruce Severy, a then 26-year-old English teacher at Drake High School, North Dakota, who in 1973 decided to use the novel as a teaching aid in his classroom, much to the delight of his students. Unfortunately for them, the head of the school board, Charles McCarthy, had other ideas: the next month, he demanded that all 32 copies be burned in the school’s furnace.

On November 16th, an angry and disappointed Vonnegut wrote to McCarthy and made his feelings known. His brilliant and powerful letter failed to generate a reply.

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