NYT:
Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like �Slaughterhouse-Five,� �Cat�s Cradle� and �God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater� caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died last night in Manhattan. He was 84 and had homes in Manhattan and in Sagaponack on Long Island.
Not the sort of news I like starting my Thursday with.
EDITED TO ADD: The Metafilter obituary thread is worth visiting, more than any other MeFi obit I can remember.