Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
During World War II, Vonnegut was captured by German forces and forced to work in a POW camp. The bright side of this arrangement was that by being forced to live underground, Vonnegut ended up surviving air raids from Allied forces. (Source)
Why did Mother Night have no traditional literary reviews in critical magazines when it was first published? Because no critic worth his or her snot would touch straight-to-paperback releases. Why was it published in paperback? Easy: to make fast cash. (Source)
Who's that (sad) guy? It's Vonnegut. He actually shows up in a cameo role in Keith Gordon's film adaptation of Mother Night. (Source)