Tom Roston

Roston is the author of The Writer’s Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five. He has worked atThe Nation and Vanity Fair, and was a senior editor at Premiere for a decade. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Fast Company, New York Magazine, Food Republic, Salon, and more.

Recent Articles

What Early Drafts of Slaughterhouse-Five Reveal About Kurt Vonnegut's Struggles

In the first chapter of Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut’s 1969 anti-war masterpiece about a hapless American soldier who becomes “unstuck in time,” the author indicates that he wrote more than five thousand pages by 1965. But...

By Tom Roston

The Untold Story of an Undocumented Immigrant Family Torn Apart by 9/11

Ana Soria had known Luis Alfonso Chimbo since she was a child. They grew up 8,000 feet above sea level in the mountains of Ecuador in the church-filled city of Cuenca. Their families made pork...

By Tom Roston
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