A treat for fans of the late Kurt Vonnegut: When he was working in the PR department of GE in the 1940s, Vonnegut tried to pitch a novella called Basic Training to two of the big magazines of the day. The Saturday Evening Post and McCalls passed on it. The story sat unread for decades, but it's now available in the Amazon Kindle store for $1.99, reports the Christian Science Monitor. It's loosely based on Vonnegut's life, involving a young man who visits a relative nicknamed "the General" and gets an earful about American values. (More Kurt Vonnegut stories.)