A previously unpublished novella by Kurt Vonnegut, BASIC TRAINING, is available today from RosettaBooks as a Kindle Single for $1.99. The 22,000-word autobiographical novella, “satirizing the military, authoritarianism, and most of the assumed mid-century myths of the family” was originally written in the late 1940s and meant to be published under the pseudonym “Mark Harvey.” In a complaint filed in Rhode Island federal court on March 16 and obtained by Courthouse News, Gabrielle Lisnoff claimed that Dr. Michael Stein, who treated her for drug addiction between 2005 and 2010, violated her privacy by using “her most private, embarrassing, and traumatizing […]
