Kurt Vonnegut

Movie review: Men in Black 3

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.24.2012

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I will admit: I tend to have a bias against movies with the number "3" in the title. If there's ever a dead giveaway that all imagination has been sap...

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The Infinite Reach of My Mother's Laughter

Darin Murphy | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Laughter, Kurt Vonnegut, Mother's Day 2012, Humor, Family, Mother's Day, Mother's Day Stories, Parents News

My mother Hallie passed away this month at age 68. She was beautiful, smart, curious, compassionate, and rebellious, a compulsive reader and a talented psychotherapist. But of all her attributes, none surpassed her capacity to laugh.

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Kurt Vonnegut: 8 Essential Elements Of A Good Short Story

Posted 04.06.2012

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Aspiring authors are sometimes willing to shell out thousands for writing workshops and MFA programs, but according to Kurt Vonnegut, the late politic...

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'You Have Insulted Me, I Am A Good Citizen'

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Video, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five, Banned Books, High School Books Banned, Burning Books, Kurt Vonnegut Letter, Vonnegut, Books Burned, Education News

Drake High School in North Dakota made headlines in October of 1973 when school board members burned 32 copies of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughter-House Five...

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New Kurt Vonnegut Book Released

Posted 03.23.2012

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A previously unpublished novella by satirical war critic Kurt Vonnegut was released today by RosettaBooks exclusively as a Kindle Single for only $1.9...

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Remembering Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut in Conversation

Carole Mallory | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, Vonnegut Heller Interview, Heller Interview, Vonnegut Interview, Books News

Reading Susan Braudy's vivid remembrance of Joe Heller made me recall the time I had the opportunity to interview him in conversation with Kurt Vonnegut. Just how did I get this dynamic duo together for a chat with a tape recorder by my side?

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You Just Got a Kindle or Nook -- Now What? 5 Books and Apps to Try Now!

Andy Wilson | Posted 02.25.2012

Read More: Kurt Vonnegut, Compare Nook to Kindle, Kindle Fire, Nook Tablet, Republic Lost, Amazon Kindle, Nook Tablet vs Kindle Fire, Lawrence Lessig, Bryan Young, Books News

The Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet are amazing gadgets, not to mention their e-ink black and white cousins and the various other tablets and the iPad. But now that they're out of the box, what to do with them?

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Occupy Christmas!

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Fundamentalism, Kurt Vonnegut, Jesus, Christmas, War on Christmas, Jackson Browne, Season's Greetings, Bill O'Reilly, Politics News

It doesn't matter whether or not you believe in God or which faith you follow if you do. Here's a question worth asking this holiday season: Would Jesus be an Occupy demonstrator? The Bible suggests that He would.

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Book Review: And So It Goes Kurt Vonnegut Biography by Charles J. Shields

Carole Mallory | Posted 02.10.2012

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And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life is riveting. Biographer Charles J. Shields shows all sides of Kurt Vonnegut, not only compassion but criticism.

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35 Classic One-liners About Aging

John Blumenthal | Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: George Carlin, Kurt Vonnegut, Jerry Seinfeld, Bob Hope, Woody Allen, Joan Rivers, Erma Bombeck, Zsa Zsa Gabor, George Burns, Steven Wright, Agatha Christie, Dead Sea, Fifty News

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work," said Woody Allen, "I want to achieve it through not dying."

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11/11/11 Will Be Celebrated as Originally Intended: As Armistice Day!

Coleen Rowley | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Armistice-Day-2011, Armistice Day, Kurt Vonnegut, Wilfred Owen, War-Is-a-Crime, Veterans Day, Veterans for Peace, World War II, 11-11-11, 11/11/11, Armistice, 11:11:11, Culture News

It's too bad Americans, as a whole, unlike Europeans, have forgotten this important history of Armistice Day and in fact have reverted to celebrating war as heroic.

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Surprising Day Jobs Of Famous Authors

Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: George Saunders, Nicholas Sparks, Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegut, David Shields, Harper Lee, Writing-Jobs, Books News

From Flavorwire All you struggling artists and writers out there, take heart. It may seem like you’re just spinning your wheels at that random jo...

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Unusual Literary Halloween Costumes

Madeleine Crum | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Swamplandia, Video, Kurt Vonnegut, Halloween Costume Ideas, Halloween Costumes, Literary Halloween Costumes, Patrick-Bateman, A Visit From the Good Squad, Slidepollajax, Sci Fi Books, Books News

It’s cooling off and coffee shops are finally re-introducing pumpkin-flavored lattes. This means just one thing: the season for costume shopping has...

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School Board Un-Bans Slaughter-House Five, Twenty Boy Summer With Restrictions

AP | Posted 11.21.2011

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By the Associated Press REPUBLIC, Mo. (AP) - Two months after removing two books from its curriculum and school library, a southwest Missouri schoo...

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Naked, With Bats

Sara Davidson | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Valley View Hot Springs, Bats, Kurt Vonnegut, Naturist, Nudist, Mexican Free-Tailed Bats, Best of Denver, Hot Springs, Nudity, Bat Caves, Denver News

It was thrilling: the bats moved like a tornado cloud, spinning and twisting at 60 miles an hour. Gathering distance, they looked like a lacy ribbon unfurling across the valley.

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Vonnegut Library And ACLU Respond To Missouri School's Book Banning

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 10.05.2011

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In response to the Republic, Mo., school board's controversial decision last week to remove "Slaughterhouse-Five" from its high school library and cur...

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William Shatner Salutes The Captains

Gregory Weinkauf | Posted 09.30.2011

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Captain Kirk! Sure, he's all sorts of things, too (producer, director, vocalist, novelist, horseman, father -- oh, and mega-icon); but tonight, it's all about the Kirk. Or, more broadly: it's all about Shatner's brand-new documentary, The Captains.

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Missouri School District Bans 'Slaughterhouse-Five'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Public Schools, School Libraries, Missouri Public Schools, Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Libraries, Book Banning, Missouri, Republic Missouri, Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer, Video, Culture News

The school board in Republic, Mo., voted 4-0 to eliminate Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" and Sarah Ockler's "Twenty Boy Summer" from the high s...

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What Your Favorite Author Says About You

Posted 09.21.2011

Read More: Book News, J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Favorite Authors, William Faulkner, Richard Price, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

We know the cliche goes, “You are what you eat," but it should really be, "You are what you read.” Or rather, who you read. One's favorite author ...

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PHOTOS: Art Inspired By Famous Authors

flavorwire.com | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Edgar Allan Poe, Inspired Art, Art, Kurt Vonnegut, Famous Authors, Haruki Murakami, Roald Dahl, Art Inspired by Authors, UK Arts, Raymond Chandler, Books News

Few headlines will draw our attention faster than “Pin-ups based on Haruki Murakami books.” Little did we know that Super Punch’s post would lea...

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10 Most Anticipated Summer Reads

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Alexander Theroux, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Kurt Vonnegut, The Curfew, Summer Reads, Hisham Matar, Kevin Mitnick, Ann Patchett, State of Wonder, Bryan Waterman, Ben Mezrich, Jesse Ball, Books News

We are on the cusp of summer, and it’s time for a preview of the books and novels worth reading in the months to come. June marks the release of a s...

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The Dangers of Nuclear 'Ice-Nine'

Donald Kaul | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Fukushima, Kurt Vonnegut, Japan Nuclear Crisis, Nuclear Power, Green News

Apparently, Japanese reactors were designed to survive either a tsunami or an earthquake, but not both. This is the problem when designing fail-safe systems -- they fail in the most unexpected ways.

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Books I've Loved and Lost

Allison Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: E-Books, Future of the Book, Vroman's Bookstore, Reading, Book Soup, Books, Kurt Vonnegut, Pat Conroy, Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Anne Lamott, The Good Thief, The Handmaid's Tale, Raymond Carver, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

Will printed books cease to exist? I honestly don't know the answer. But I know that I miss the books I've lost along the way, the physical books with their notes, underlinings and associations.

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Life in the Water

Reverend Billy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mudslides, Apocalypse, Natural Disasters, Kurt Vonnegut, Pakistan, Flood, Life on Earth, Tsunamis, Media, Peace, Corporate Accountability, Cnn, Corporations, Water, Industry, Environment, Blizzards, Corporate Greenwashing, Green News

A short clip of Rev's sermon from last Sunday's Earthalujah service. Join us this week live in NYC and online at Revbilly.com. We have a schizophren...

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Sylvia Plath Drew Hotdogs And Borges Sketched Dancers: Famous Authors Are Doodlers, Too

flavorwire.com | Emily Temple | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Author Doodles, David Foster Wallace, Vladimir Nabokov, Kurt Vonnegut, Samuel Beckett, Author Drawings, Sylvia Plath, Mark Twain, Allen Ginsberg, Franz Kafka, Books News

Everybody doodles. There's just something about an idle moment and a blank space on a page that invites a little design or two. Plus, there is some ev...

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