BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Writer Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84:

One of the outstanding figures of modern US literature, Kurt Vonnegut, has died aged 84 in New York.

What a royal bummer.

“Destiny Calling“, a short story I wrote and sent to Kurt after finishing Timequake (Kurt Jr. Vonnegut) (got off the plane from London, took the A line straight home, threw the bag on the bed and started writing in the old Atlantic Ave apartment in Brooklyn – writing on that crummy old desk/kitchen table acquired from some guy’s basement down the avenue, a basement filled with Miles Davis memorabilia and furniture).