Vonnegut just keeps on trucking.

Am I completely insane?  Didn't Vonnegut say that Timequake was going to be his last book? 

Maybe he said last novel, rather than last book.  But I could have sworn that he said book--you know, so that he could concentrate on his art?  Does anyone else remember that?

Anyway, he has a new book out.  I guess that I can forgive him for going back on his word (if he actually did), because he appreciates librarians so much:

From USAToday (via Bookslut):

Librarians, too — "not famous for their physical strength" — who resist having books removed from shelves and refuse to give names of people who have checked out certain books in the era of the Patriot Act.

"The America I loved," he writes, "still exists in the front desks of public libraries."

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[steve]

I remember him saying something like that, too. But I also remember reading an interview (maybe when he was teaching at that school in Mass? was it Wellsely?) about how when he said that, he thought for sure he'd be dead before too long. And that he was going to sue the cigarette companies because they promised they would kill him, and they hadn't followed through.