In this episode, the girls discuss Vonnegut’s beloved short story and ponder how ‘‘equality’ often gets in the way of art, beauty, and true human flourishing.

“Harrison Bergeron” Fast Facts:

• Published in October 1961, eight years before Vonnegut came to real literary fame for Slaughterhouse-Five

• The first publication of “Harrison Bergeron” was in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and the genre of the work is categorized as dystopian science fiction

• Vonnegut confesses that this short story might have sprung from his envy and self-pity as a high school misfit

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