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...returning bipolar illness that nearly launched him out a window, remarriage, and a life in the shadow of his father. The late Kurt Vonnegut is an eccentric background character, and Mark's childhood memories of his not-yet-famous father are worth chasing through...
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...tool goes here Carolina Actors Studio Theatre (CAST) celebrates the audacious humor and creative vision of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. in its new production, "Welcome to the Monkey House." The show is an adaptation of eight tales from that short-story collection....
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...to, but the book can seem confusing at times. It's a great read for any novel/fiction enthusiast. Obituary for seminal author Kurt Vonnegut... so it goes. He, himself, is probably chuckling on his way to the afterlife. Franny and Zooey by J.D Salinger and...
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A new research poll says most Americans think the last decade was a disaster. Marty Beckerman on the cultural touchstones, from James Frey to Paris
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Occasionally from the nation’s cultural attic come rare finds—last touches of genius brought to light—like this wondrous new collection of vintage Kurt Vonnegut short stories. “Look at the Birdie” includes 14 previously unpublished short stories that
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Human beings in there were excreting into steel helmets which were passed to the people at the ventilators, who dumped them. Billy was a dumper. The human beings also passed canteens, which guards would fill with water. When food came
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This was the proposition discussed at a dinner I attended in Beijing: Western civilisation imploded in 1914, shattered by the First World War. We live in its ruins. The moral certainty that gave us Balzac, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Melville and
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When a renowned author dies, two critical processes begin: first, placing the writer in the pantheon; and second, digging out every jot, every piece of juvenilia, every previously unseen word the deceased wrote. Kurt Vonnegut’s place in American
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Kurt Vonnegut fans can revel in fourteen previously unpublished short stories each sparkling with the wit, the sarcasm, and the dark observations that only Kurt Vonnegut can offer. Read more.
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When a renowned author dies, two critical processes begin: first, placing the writer in the pantheon, and second, digging out every jot, every piece of juvenilia, every previously unseen word the deceased wrote.
Kurt Vonnegut's place in American
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I’ve collected the works of Kurt Vonnegut for many, many years – and usually in multiples when I find them cheaply. I can mail the extra copies to friends and have them treat me oddly until the eventual demise of our relationship. I dated a girl once
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Our story on China's earliest snowfall in decades got picked up by Green Patriot Radio, which interviewed me on the ins and outs of the country's extensive rainmaking program. Among the trivia I share:
- Rainmaking technology was first developed in
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At the end of WWII, having been a prisoner of war for months, and with his family knowing only that he was "missing in action," Kurt Vonnegut mailed a letter back to Indianapolis.
Dear people:
I'm told that you were probably never informed that I was
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...in 2007. On Oct. 20, Delacorte Press printed 14 previously unpublished short stories by former Sun assistant managing editor Kurt Vonnegut ’44. Named Look at the Birdie after one of the short story’s titles, the collection is the second compilation of Vonnegut’s...
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Cornell Daily Sun
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Monday’s release of Vladimir Nabakov’s The Original Laura has generated considerable fanfare, in large part because the famed writer expressly requested in his will that the works be destroyed. Meanwhile, the posthumous publication of another famous
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I'm with you on the neon color palette. But that old cover design definitely needed something new.
I like about half of the news ones, Slaughterhouse-Five I think is actually the most improved. They're not great, but the old covers just aren't
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The Stranger
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Kurt Vonnegut's 26th book, "Armageddon in Retrospect," a collection of unpublished essays and stories, with illustrations and a personal letter from the author, was published posthumously in 2008.
The second posthumous book from the author is "Look at
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Kurt Vonnegut's 26th book, "Armageddon in Retrospect," a collection of unpublished essays and stories, with illustrations and a personal letter from the author, was published posthumously in 2008.
The second posthumous book from the author is "Look at
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Robert Waldmann
Don't say you weren't warned. I am trying to understand the effects of the switch from mechanically controlled machine tools to electronically controlled machine tools and then to digitally controlled machine tools. I don't really know
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It’s been two years since Kurt Vonnegut departed this world, and it’s hard not to feel a bit rudderless without him. Late in his life, Vonnegut issued a series of wonderfully exasperated columns for the magazine In These Times. During the darkest years
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Of course you all know that Kurt Vonnegut used to manage a Saab dealership in Massachusetts before he became a famous writer. But any day is a good day to relive his fun tale.
A tale which may have cost him the Nobel Prize in Literature! In a short
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The characters in John Irving’s new novel, “Last Night in Twisted River,” live in what one of them calls “a world of accidents” - some good, some not.
The New Hampshire author’s latest book - his twelfth - follows a cook father and his novelist son as
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Let's be clear right off the top: At the age of 12, John Irving didn't inadvertently kill a woman with a cast-iron skillet after mistaking her for a bear.
That fateful act was perpetrated by Daniel Baciagalupo, the protagonist in Irving's newly
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Kurt Vonnegut was frequently quoted
as saying “If I should ever die,
God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
"The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.”
As we know, Kurt Vonnegut frequently exaggerated to make a point. Like many
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Vonnegut not only resides in the pantheon -- he's helped create a whole other one. He was a much more literary writer than many care to give him credit for, and sadder too. He came from a family of suicides and himself danced around the idea of
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In this Sunday's paper, we've got a never-before-published story by Kurt Vonnegut. "Look at the Birdie" is the title story of the collection to be released next week, two and a half years after his death.
"I'm lucky," Vonnegut told David L. Ulin in
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As Michael Jackson has most recently shown, death is no impediment to commercial success. And so, two of the writers on this month’s list of noteworthy new books aren’t available to go on tour. When it comes to the living, the group includes another
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“Don’t be so gloomy. After all, it’s not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland,
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. died in 2007 and left behind a literary legacy of 14 novels, eight short story collections and various other works.
Now that Vonnegut is deceased, his publishers are beginning to release previously unseen works of fiction and
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MSU Reflector
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Kurt Vonnegut before his death, in 2007.
Excerpted from Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction, by Kurt Vonnegut, to be published October 20, 2009, by Delacorte, an imprint of Random House, Inc. Text © by the Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Trust.
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In his book Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Vonnegut listed eight rules for writing a short story:
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one
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It is unlikely that anyone is better positioned to write a book attempting to look at the symbiotic relationship Kurt Vonnegut had with America than Jerome Klinkowitz. He is, after all, considered to be the founder of the scholarly discipline that has
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I can’t believe I’ve made it this long without ever hearing this audio, described as Vonnegut’s “first public reading of the classic Breakfast of Champions, three years before it was published, on May 4, 1970 at the 92nd Street Y.”
Sounds just terrific
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... I have no idea what any of this is about. “But because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs! So people pretend there is drama where there is none.” That'...
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I have no idea what any of this is about.
“But because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs! So people pretend there is drama where there is
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Obsessive mothers, hyper-sensitive roommates, the cast of VH1’s “Daisy of Love”—why do some people create so much drama? According to Kurt Vonnegut (by way of sivers.org), it’s because they think that their lives are supposed to be as exciting—for
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FILE - In this March 15, 2009 file photo, actress Parker Posey attends the Metropolitan Opera 125th anniversary gala at Lincoln Center, in New York.
Actress Parker Posey and authors Gay Talese and Naomi Wolf will be among those participating in a new
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Miami Herald
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The Odd Life of Kurt Vonnegut: One of the lesser-known facts about Kurt Vonnegut is that he once ran a car dealership called Saab Cape Cod in West Barnstable, Mass., making him one of the Swedish manufacturer's first dealers in the United States.
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NEW YORK (AP) Actress Parker Posey and authors Gay Talese and Naomi Wolf will be among those participating in a new line of audiobooks dedicated to famous 20th-century books.
Audible Inc. says the Audible Modern Vanguard will feature unabridged texts
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August 13, 2009 6:00 AM EDT
AUDIBLE MODERN VANGUARD LAUNCH LIST
TITLE AUTHOR Narrator
A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving Joe Barrett
Moon Palace Paul Auster Joe Barrett
The Music of Chance Paul Auster Marc Vietor
Leviathan Paul Auster
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"The last thing the audience will see," Trevor Griffiths told me, "is an enormous bulldozer which will advance towards them, downstage, showering them in body parts."
Griffiths was lying on the carpet in his workroom, staring at the ceiling. "Read
that,
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When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
The survey of 300 Irish CEOs by the Irish Business and Employers Confederation (IBEC) also found that over 98% of respondents believe EU membership has been important for the success of Irish business.
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Around the 11-minute mark, Othmer recalled the difference between his two amazing literary clients: "[Yates] was a wonderful writer. He was amazing and had written 'Revolutionary Road,' yet never received the numbers that Vonnegut or a lot of his
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Kurt Vonnegut, shown in a 1973 file photo, was revered for his ability to combine black comedy with an original imagination. (Jill Krementz/Associated Press)
Kurt Vonnegut's longtime publisher will release a sneak preview of a collection of his
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is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and
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This afternoon I am working at home - I need to finish the hand-outs for next weeks summeryoga class.
So for me right now Thursday is okay.
Thursday is a long day. Fortunately from tomorrow I am on leave until the following weekend. No work or
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LOL, does that mean we are now like BA and we have to work for ET a whole month without a salary?
Probably. And then the media can have a freak-out about our expenses.
You think they will find out about our expenses? Guess we better watch out. :-)
Yes,
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...the pantheon of Indiana writers, there can be no doubt that Kurt Vonnegut has earned an exalted place, but a saint he wasn't. Loree Rackstraw's book is billed as an "intimate memoir" of her time with the famed -- and married -- Indianapolis-born writer, but...
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