“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point,‘If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.’
-- Kurt Vonnegut, our patron saint
“If this isn’t nice, what is?” has become a motto around our shop and home over the past year, and when we look (read: gaze adoringly) at this scarce advance review copy of Vonnegut’s first novel, Player Piano, we can’t help but murmur it ourselves.
Drawing inspiration from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, and his own Post-WWII experiences working for General Electric, Vonnegut prognosticates a future of know-how and no...