Vonnegut Tributes

And so the tributes begin.

Chicago Tribune literary editor and NBCC board member Elizabeth Taylor recalls a night with Studs Terkel when Kurt Vonnegut called.

Joseph Palermo recalls hearing Vonnegut speak at Cornell, where he had studied in the 1940s.

Reminding us that the best tribute to a writer is reading the work, New York magazine's website has Vonnegut's 2000 essay on finding a welcome in the Algonquin Hotel.

The Washington Post's website offers a link to Geoffrey Wolff's 1969 review of "Slaughterhouse Five."

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette book editor and NBCC member Bob Hoover recalls Vonnegut's 1998 visit to Pittsburgh.

The saddest of all: The updated official Kurt Vonnegut website, with the stark dates: 1922-2007.