Daily television guide Nov 20, 2009
Kurt Vonnegut s novel about an American playwright living in WWII Berlin. Nick Nolte. (Boston Globe)
The story, so far Nov 19, 2009
Yes, that really was John Updike, Frank McCourt, Norman Mailer, the historian Shelby Foote, Hunter S. Thompson of gonzo lore and Kurt Vonnegut on those memorable Albany evenings when the city's literary standing was every bit equal to its political one. Saul Bellow and Joseph Heller were here, too, in their day. (Albany Times Union)
College paper editors know where they can find each other Nov 14, 2009
Favorite authors: H.G. Wells, Kurt Vonnegut, T.H. White ("The Once and Future King"), and George Martin (a fantasy writer). Comment on her science reading: "I just learn bizarre things. Science is mostly a hobby.". (Brainerd Daily Dispatch)
Down to the nuts and bolts Nov 6, 2009
Favourite author: Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, Hermann Hesse. Favourite motorcycle: Honda Fireblade CBR1000RR is my current ride, and Kaneda's motorcycle from the film Akira, of which I have a scale model. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Ask the pilot Nov 1, 2009
It happened to my idols Kurt Vonnegut and Spalding Gray. It happened to Patrick Smi. (Salon)
'Twisted River' flows through John Irving's own life Oct 30, 2009
The late Kurt Vonnegut, who taught Irving at Iowa, has a walk-on role. "A kind man and good teacher," Vonnegut advises the novel's fictional novelist to go easy on semicolons: "People will probably figure out that you went to college - you don't have to try to prove it to them.". (Honolulu Advertiser)
COMMENTARY: Just the beginning for Beavs Oct 25, 2009
So it goes, Kurt Vonnegut would say. BUT WHAT'S TRULY changing isn't the USC Trojans at all -- it's Oregon State. (BeaverFootball.com)
Writing about writing Oct 25, 2009
To further entangle author and character, Irving creates obvious career parallels: Angel becomes an international success in the late 1970s with his fourth novel, as Irving did with his fourth, The World According to Garp ; Angel publishes an abortion novel called East of Bangor in the mid-1980s just as Irving published The Cider House Rules ; cameos are made by well-known colleagues of Irving s such as Kurt Vonnegut, John Cheever, Raymond Carver, Marvin Bell, and Salman Rushdie; Boston,... (Boston Globe)
High schools diversify their literature Oct 11, 2009
For example, Kurt Vonnegut, whose writings captured a society in transition, is an author whose impact is likely to last, Nichols said. As students become more removed from the era of the 1960s and 1970s, however, Vonneguts work is less likely to be taught, he added. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
Harvard buys Updike archive Oct 7, 2009
The papers also include photographs, files of brochures and fliers used in his research, sample dust-jacket designs, and letters from such literary figures as Kurt Vonnegut and Joyce Carol Oates, as well as from fans. The archive is so extensive because Updike was not only prolific, he also was a perfectionist, said Leslie Morris, curator of modern books and manuscripts at Houghton Library, which also houses the papers of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, T.S. Eliot, and... (Boston Globe)
Books of siege Sep 25, 2009
First published in print: Friday, September 25, 2009. Think of it as chance to sample some great literature, an introduction or reacquaintance with both books that have come to be classics and some that haven't attracted enough attention beyond the censors and self-appointed moral arbiters. (Albany Times Union)
Playing the Averages: The Risks of Pharmaceutical Advances Sep 22, 2009
In the opening of the classic 1961 short story Harrison Bergeron, novelist Kurt Vonnegut depicted a future in which people who had been born superior in some way over average people could not use those gifts to take unfair advantage. The strong lugged handicapping weights, the beautiful wore hideous masks and the clever were not permitted to think for stretches longer than 20 seconds or so. (Scientific American)
Conditions build for another meltdown Sep 21, 2009
Simon H. Johnson, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, likened it to the fictitious substance ice-nine in the 1963 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. novel "Cat's Cradle," one drop of which could crystallize all the water on Earth. The Chapter 11 filing froze the global financial infrastructure. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Dan Browns worst sentences (or at least twenty of them) Sep 19, 2009
1 for Kurt Vonnegut - I wish I was 1/100th the writer he was ... " Are you kidding? Kurt Vonnegut: "Slaughter House Five"; "The Sirens of Titan"; "Cat's Cradle"; "Breakfast of Champions"; "Mother Night" "The legs of those who stood were like fence posts driven into a warm, squirming, farting, sighing earth ... " - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, Chapter 3 That is an impressive sentence. Some writers do indeed have sour grapes, but in Brown's case, his writing is so bad I think it gave me... (Harper's Magazine)
Fall feast for fiction lovers Sep 13, 2009
Alice Munro, Jonathan Lethem, Philip Roth, and the late Kurt Vonnegut have new titles coming soon, too. Thomas Pynchon, Pat Conroy, and E.L. Doctorow have all published recently. (Boston Globe)
Strong adult themes Sep 11, 2009
With a storyline like that, it is easy to understand why Keret has been compared with both Kurt Vonnegut and Franz Kafka. By taking six of Keret's stories and blending them into a coherent single narrative, Rosenthal admits she was influenced greatly by Robert Altman's Short Cuts, which did the same with a number of Raymond Carver's short stories. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
A library without books? Sep 7, 2009
RE : The situation described on the front page of the Globe s Sept. 4 edition has all the makings of a Kurt Vonnegut satire. James Tracy, headmaster of Cushing Academy, claims that books take up too much space. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
Leaves and pages turn in the fall books preview Sep 7, 2009
Those who are no longer with us are also expected to revive sales: Posthumous books include titles by George Carlin, Michael Crichton, Edward Kennedy, Vladimir Nabokov and Kurt Vonnegut ... by Kurt Vonnegut (Delcacorte Press). (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
1969: A year of revolution, revelation Sep 7, 2009
Philip Roth wrote Portnoy s Complaint, Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse Five, John Fowles wrote The French Lieutenant s Woman and the most astonishing thing in retrospect about those books is that they were all bestsellers. So was Mario Puzo s The Godfather. (The Palm Beach Post)
Interview with Award Winning Writer... Sep 5, 2009
A. Charles Dickens, Joan Didion, Iain Banks, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles M. Schulz, Stephen King, Thomas Pynchon, Elmore Leonard, Prentice J. Ovoid, Janet Hobhouse, John Updike; I could go on forever but I won t bore you any further. Also Prentice J. Ovoid isn t real, I just made him up. (Suite101.com)
New Fall Books Penned by Prizewinners Aug 28, 2009
Also, a reissue of Michael Jackson's memoir "Moonwalk" and a deluxe coffee-table edition about the late singer; short fiction by Kurt Vonnegut; authorized sequels to A.A. Milne's "Winnie the Pooh" and Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"; the posthumous completion of a memoir by George Carlin and of a Robert Jordan novel, "The Gathering Storm," the first of a planned trilogy that will wrap up his "Wheel of Time" series. "There's a certain reopening to the mystery of authorship and... (CBS News -- Entertainment)
Splash around: Great kids products for water play Aug 18, 2009
Audible, Inc. today announced the launch of a new line of audiobooks, Audible Modern Vanguard, which will bring to unabridged audio landmark fiction and nonfiction works from the 20th century by leading literary innovators such as Saul Bellow, Kurt Vonnegut, John Cheever, John Irving and Paul Auster ... com listeners will have a chance to hear Azar Nafisi discussing Saul Bellow; Russell Banks on William Kennedy; Gay Talese on Kurt Vonnegut; Larry. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ is marriage of inconvenience Aug 14, 2009
Imagine Kurt Vonnegut s Slaughterhouse-Five hero Billy Pilgrim, unstuck in time and landing in a tearjerker. Based on a best-selling novel by Audrey Niffenegger, Time Traveler s Wife is told with a tenderness that s unusual in a major motion picture but that leads mostly to dullness. (Boston Globe)
Vt. firefighter, Iraq guardsman writes about war Aug 10, 2009
Middleton, without meaning to, has joined a long and distinguished line of authors who wrote of their war experiences - some of whom, like Ernest Hemingway after World War I or Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut from World War II, became giants of American literature. Almost eight years after the United States went to war in Afghanistan in the aftermath of 9/11, war memoirs like Middleton's and books by reporters, diplomats and retired generals are filling store shelves. (Concord Monitor)
Public Education Brainiacs Thrive in Georgia Jul 23, 2009
I guess he didn t read Kurt Vonnegut s Harrison Bergeron. The REAL GodHatesTrash, Superstar. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
OLD IS NEW: Saturday Evening Post looks to its past in shaping future Jul 12, 2009
Over the decades, the Post has printed work from such authors as C.S. Lewis, Agatha Christie, William Saroyan, Rudyard Kipling, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Lorimer, who became editor in 1899, made the cover into an artists' showcase, featuring J.C. Leyendecker, N.C. Wyeth and others. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Why Books are Banned Jul 12, 2009
Well known authors whose books have been banned include Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, JD Salinger, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut, and Jack London, for a small part of a long list. The American Library Association has lists of banned books online at their website. (Suite101.com)
Carroll combing all 50 states for 'lost' history sites to save Jul 9, 2009
It looks very familiar," he said.Informed that the first Dogwood Fine Arts Festival Visiting Author Kurt Vonnegut found Dowagiac suitable for a Saturday Evening Post cover, Carroll responded, "In my book 'Behind the Lines' (one of eight) I published an unpublished letter Kurt Vonnegut wrote in April 1945 after he was liberated. He himself had forgotten he wrote it. (Dowagiac News, MI)
‘The Last of His Kind’ captures Bradford Washburn’s single-mindedness, fearlessness Jun 28, 2009
(Viking) is another darkly funny, inventive story that invites comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut s work. The main character is Junior Thibodeau, born to a working-class family in Maine, who learns in utero that a comet will obliterate life on Earth in 36 years. (Boston Globe)
For ‘$9.99,’ animated characters and story lines Jun 26, 2009
99, first-time feature director Tatia Rosenthal draws divine inspiration from the popular short stories of Etgar Keret, whose imaginative, irreverent ruminations have earned him comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut, Franz Kafka, and Woody Allen. Keret s film resum. (Boston Globe)
Sharing dads name a mixed bag Jun 20, 2009
"Of course, there have been other secret Juniors among us. Albert Gore, Jr., has said he dropped the suffix to differentiate himself from his politician father. For the first half of his literary career, Kurt Vonnegut published under Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. And Tom Cruise was born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV. For Kendrick, even though he ultimately ended his juniorship, he says that as a kid, sharing his dad's name helped forge a tight bond between the two. "I wanted to be like him," he recalls. A... (MSNBC -- Health)
Class of 2009: Malden High graduates the leaders of tomorrow Jun 16, 2009
Tzivia Halperin, the class salutatorian who plans to attend Emerson University, spoke to her fellow graduates and attendees despite suffering from a high fever just the day before and still ended her speech on a light-hearted note by quoting author Kurt Vonnegut in saying, True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. Each of the student speakers put joking aside, however, to mention how optimistic they are for the future that lies ahead... (Malden Observer, MA)
APA Honors the Year's Best Audiobooks at 14th Annual Audies Gala in New York City Jun 1, 2009
com Executive Producer: Shiloh Light Foundation Producer: Luke Thoene Director: Anne Rosenfeld Inspirational / Faith-Based Non-Fiction The Word of Promise(R): Next Generation--New Testament By: ICB Translation Read by: Sean Astin and cast Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc. Executive Producer/Co-Producer: Dan Lynch Producer: Carl Amari Directors: John Kirby and Jeff Lupetin Production Supervisor: Brenda Noel Literary Fiction Elmer Gantry By: Sinclair Lewis Read by: Anthony Heald Publisher: Blackstone... (PR Newswire)
Nick Jans, literary artist May 29, 2009
His literary tastes run the gamut from Hunter S. Thompson and Kurt Vonnegut to T.S. Eliot and Mark Twain, although he said he often is drawn to particular books rather than authors. Some of his favorites include Tim O'Brien's "The Things they Carried" and Cormac McCarthy's "All the Pretty Horses." Shakespeare also inspires him. (Juneau Empire)
God bless you, Mr. Vonnegut May 17, 2009
Author Kurt Vonnegut and friend Loree Rackstraw in 1993 ... As major 20th-century American novelists go, Kurt Vonnegut did a remarkable job of keeping his private life out of his fiction ... Steve Almond's most recent book, "(Not that You Asked)," contains a lengthy appreciation of Kurt Vonnegut. (Boston Globe)
Kurt Vonnegut in Memoriam May 10, 2009
This April marked the second anniversary of the death of Kurt Vonnegut, humorist, satirist, novelist, and artist. Reflecting on his own death, there are a few things Vonnegut might have to say. (Suite101.com)
Ian M. Banks May 3, 2009
Olaf Stapledon (Star Maker), Magda Sweetland (Eightsome Reel), Hunter S. Thomson (Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas), Leo Tolstoy, Vernor Vinge (especially Grimm s Story and A Fire upon the Deep), Kurt Vonnegut, Ian Watson, Evelyn Waugh and Gene Wolfe to name but rather a lot but probably excluding a few I should have included. Are these very different from those authors you grew up reading as a child. (Suite101.com)
Price, Boyle inducted into exclusive academy Apr 15, 2009
"I'll never forget it. John Updike, white-haired and beaming with his lovely wife. Kurt Vonnegut gave a fiery, denunciatory speech about something or the other. And I got to sit down next to Allen Ginsberg and exchange what was no doubt witty repartee. That was pretty heady for a young pup.". Other inductees. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Publisher to release new Vonnegut stories Apr 13, 2009
Marty Reichenthal / APA posthumous collection of short stories by Kurt Vonnegut will be released this November ... A posthumous collection of short stories by Kurt Vonnegut will be released this November. (MSNBC -- News)
SUPERMAN'S STORY: Born of a real-life fatal robbery? Apr 13, 2009
"Kurt Vonnegut, Jules Pfeiffer, Will Eisner, Eli Wallach and his wife were there," Robinson, 86, says. "Walter Cronkite came on, and they showed Superman flying, and he described what had happened. At the end, he said, 'Another triumph for truth, justice and the American way.' "We opened Champagne. (USA Today -- Life)
New memoir recounts early days of SNL Apr 8, 2009
Davis, 56, also details his friendship with counterculture legends Timothy Leary and Jerry Garcia (the two tried unsuccessfully to write a screenplay of a Kurt Vonnegut Jr. novel); his own drug use (he first took LSD watching "2001: A Space Odyssey" with friends at a Twin Cities drive-in); and his travel as a young hippie to India in the 1970s. Davis, whose hair and beard now are now gray and stylishly trimmed, says his stories are those of his generation. (MSNBC -- News)
Famous poet/songwriter to celebrate National Poetry Month Apr 1, 2009
"When you perform, you are supersonic and in the stratosphere, where you can see that the Earth really is a ball, moist, blue-green. Regie, you sing and chant for all of us. Nobody gets left out." --Kurt Vonnegut ... Regie has also worked with Gwendolyn Brooks, Roy Ayers, Fareed Haque, Kurt Vonnegut, David Amram, The Monks of the Drepong Gamong Monastery, members of the world famous AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians), Mos Def, Savion Glover, John Legend and many other... (Hopkinton Town Crier, MA)
You can feast at a library, but its costs are no fiction Mar 29, 2009
"Get Shorty" by Elmore Leonard, "Casino Royale" by Ian Fleming, a handful of novels by Kurt Vonnegut, and Patricia Highsmith's "The Talented Mr. Ripley" -- my favorite Eisenhower era sociopath -- are on the list along with the novels of James Joyce, Leo Tolstoy and other dead wordsmiths you need for your reading merit badge. If the Carnegie can't provide all 1,001, it can come very close, and that singular service is "free to the people" just like Andy wanted. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Facebook looks different? Just get over it, okay? Mar 24, 2009
Kurt Vonnegut thought, decades ago, of "the Monkey House" in part as the disquieting meeting of technology and humanity, and in the Internet he found an "analgesic" far more "spooky" than television, which he felt simulated soothing, surreal relationships. Or "hyperreal," as that stylish French critic Jean Baudrillard opined excitedly. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Husky Happenings Mar 23, 2009
Subscription titles include: Kurt Vonnegut s So It Goes; 1-800-INDIA: Importing a White-Collar Economy; The Roaring Twenties; Dying to Leave: the Dark Business of Human Trafficking; and Women and Islam. Mike Napolitano, News Staff. (Northeastern News, MA)
Time travel has been a constant on TV series Mar 22, 2009
Certainly "Lost" is one of the most original and elaborately plotted shows ever on TV, but it is far from the first series to give us characters "unstuck in time," as Kurt Vonnegut put it in "Slaughterhouse-Five." From "Star Trek" and "One Life to Live" to "Quantum Leap" and "The X-Files," TV writers have played with time travel and invented their own rules regarding chronology and the relationship between the past, the present, and the future. Sometimes, time travel on TV symbolizes an interior... (Boston Globe)
Former Franken comedy partner steps into spotlight Mar 15, 2009
Davis, 56, also details his friendship with counterculture legends Jerry Garcia (the two tried unsuccessfully to write a screenplay of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s 1959 novel "The Sirens of Titan") and Timothy Leary; his own drug use (he first took LSD watching "2001: A Space Odyssey" with friends at a Twin Cities drive-in); and his travel as a young hippie to India in the 1970s. His hair and beard now gray and stylishly trimmed, Davis says his stories are those of his generation. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Olbermann's Plastic Ivy Mar 13, 2009
Among the graduates of the Ivy League Cornell are Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Thomas Pynchon, Paul Wolfowitz, E.B. White, Sanford I. Weill, Floyd Abrams, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Ginsburg, Janet Reno, Henry Heimlich and Harold Bloom. Graduates of the ag school include David LeNeveu of the Anaheim Ducks, Mitch Carefoot of the Phoenix RoadRunners, Darren Eliot, former professional hockey player, and Joe Nieuwendyk, multiple Stanley Cup winner. (Human Events Online)
A crisis of faith? More Americans say they have no religion Mar 9, 2009
" -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Mother Night ". wingdam wrote on Mar 9, 2009 12:48 AM:" A crisis of faith?More like the Triumph of logic and reason! ". (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Retired UNI prof writes intimate portrait of lifelong friend Vonnegut Mar 8, 2009
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App-A-Day: TextOnPhone Mar 7, 2009
You can find among TextOnPhone's catalog such notable authors as William Gibson, Robert Ludlum, J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut and Stephen King. There's also a book-talk forum, and you can cruise sections where readers upload their own reading lists for you to peruse. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
Ignatieff comes a-courtin' Mar 2, 2009
You aren't a Baptist minister; you're probably one of those dreaded secular humanists such as Kurt Vonnegut. I also guess that you have no daily connection to the land other than fond recollections of your uncle's farm. (Globe and Mail)
Letters to the editor (2/24/09) Feb 24, 2009
Any magazine that publishes Kurt Vonnegut in its pages in addition to beautiful young women is just tops in my book. Perhaps Ms. Patkotak should re-examine her views on women's roles in the world. (Anchorage Daily News)
A Humble Opinion Feb 18, 2009
Kurt Vonnegut is dead ... I. Kurt Vonnegut, April 2007 ... I verbalize to an acquaintance that in their absence, I will spend the weekend reading the full canon of Kurt Vonnegut. (GW Hatchet, Washington DC)
Arts » Feb 12, 2009
Kurt Vonnegut is dead. Norman Mailer is dead. (GW Hatchet, Washington DC)
Local Literary Experts Suggest Books Every Teen Should Read Feb 8, 2009
A Kurt Vonnegut book also made Russell's list. "Students should be exposed to all kinds of literature, but 'Cat's Cradle' is different from a lot of books they will read in class," she said. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
