Coffee Spew

The L.A. Times has a previously unpublished Kurt Vonnegut story, “Look at the Birdie.” Clever and polished (if dialogue heavy) with a couple of fun twists. Very Vonnegut, I’d say, mixing social satire and noirish pulp with a dash of Weird Tales horror. About a discredited psychotherapist using paranoid schizophrenics as “muscle” in a blackmail scheme. It’s the title story in a posthumous collection just out from Delacorte Press in hardback.