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Bruce Severy

Kurt Vonnegut’s Powerful 1973 Letter to the Man Burning his Books

Shawn Usher beautifully sets the context in Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience: Since first being published in 1967— and despite being considered …

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