Talk on the Rocks: Christina Jarvis

Creating an Apocalypse: From “Ice-9” to Cat’s Cradle

Scheduled for 3:15 on Wednesday, June 29

Christina Jarvis is Professor of English at SUNY Fredonia, where she teaches courses in sustainability and 20th-century American literature and culture, including several different major author seminars on Kurt Vonnegut. Her book Lucky Mud & Other Foma: A Field Guide to Kurt Vonnegut’s Planetary Citizenship will be published by Seven Stories Press in October. She is also the author of The Male Body at War: American Masculinity during World War II and several articles about Vonnegut’s fiction. When she is not following peculiar travel suggestions, she lives near the shores of Lake Erie in Western New York.

Would you like to learn how to make a Cat’s Cradle? See written instructions here.

Or watch the video. We’ll have the string on the island for you.