On Kurt Vonnegut: Indianapolis, Safran Foer, Moody from On Point with Tom Ashbrook Podcast

The new Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library celebrates America's great "humanist" writer. Guests: Rodney Allen, author and professor of English at the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts; Julia Whitehead, founder and president of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in Indianapolis; Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; Rick Moody, author of Purple America, Garden State, and The Four Fingers of Death.

Download the WBUR radio podcast here. See also: Eating Animals, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel, Tree of Codes

"Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives: Stories" by Brad Watson from WUAL Alabama Public Radio - Don Noble Book Reviews

Watson has released "Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives," which contains the title piece, a novella of 72 pages, and 11 other stories. Sometimes there are influences, of the best pedigree, discernable in Watson's fiction. In "Aliens," we see the influence of Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five," perhaps.

Download the podcast here. See also: Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel, Cat's Cradle: A Novel, Breakfast of Champions: A Novel