| 单词 | Vonnegut |
| 例句 | I was already riding the elevator down to my hangar and shouting at Max to prep the Vonnegut for takeoff. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Then I fired the Vonnegut’s engines and set a course for another planet in Sector Seven, not far from Archaide. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As promised in the list, she brought a Kurt Vonnegut book, Cat’s Cradle, and she read aloud to me, her soft voice mingling with the the frogs’ croaking and the grasshoppers landing softly around us. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The Vonnegut’s perfectly rendered steel loading ramp lowered to the ground, standing out in sharp contrast against the digital blackness of Archaide’s surface. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It's by Kurt Vonnegut, and she only read the first three stories, and now her audiobook supplier can't find a recording of it. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A transparent blue shield appeared around the Vonnegut’s hull. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He remembers once telling Volpe that he was binging on Kurt Vonnegut novels, “going through a Vonnegut stage.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “You know what...I really shouldn’t filter. You can handle the more mature stuff, and one thing you’ve got is plenty of time. Vonnegut. Erdrich. Morrison.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Following my instructions, Max had set the Vonnegut down in a landing lot near the equator in the eastern hemisphere. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I walked to the end of the runway, past my X-wing and the Vonnegut. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z With my cloaking device engaged, I selected the nearest instance of the city and landed the Vonnegut just outside the wall of its dome, watching my scopes for other ships. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The hangar doors slid open, and the Vonnegut rocketed out the launch tunnel and up into the starry sky. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Max, prep the Vonnegut for takeoff. If you’re not too busy.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Just as I was sitting down in the Vonnegut’s cockpit, an e-mail from Aech arrived in my inbox. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I engaged the Vonnegut’s autopilot, then activated my Ring of Teleportation by speaking the command word, “Brundell.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The Vonnegut was a heavily modified Firefly-class transport vessel, modeled after the Serenity in the classic Firefly TV series. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My ship’s cloaking device was already engaged, and I left it activated when I set the Vonnegut down on one of the Tyrell Building’s landing pads. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Sitting on the runway itself was my most frequently used spacecraft, the Vonnegut Max had already powered up the engines, and they emitted a low, steady roar that filled the hangar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As the Vonnegut made the jump to light speed, each of the planets on my viewscreen became a long streak of light. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As I approached the Vonnegut, the loading ramp extended to the hangar floor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I used them whenever the Vonnegut needed repairs or upgrades. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Shortly after I collected the last of the game’s nineteen treasures, a tiny brass bauble, a notice flashed in my display informing me that the Vonnegut had arrived outside. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But they failed a few seconds later, and the Vonnegut’s hull suffered an alarming amount of damage in the handful of seconds it took me to make the jump to light speed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The Vonnegut would be a target for the first leather-clad booster gang that spotted it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As Max piloted the Vonnegut down to the surface, I prepared for the possibility of combat by charging up my armor and buffing my avatar with several potions and nano packs. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As the Vonnegut streaked through hyperspace, I pulled the Director’s Cut of Blade Runner up in a window on my display, then jumped ahead to review two scenes in particular. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z So we talk about Vonnegut and I tell her that my favorite book of his is Cat’s Cradle. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Max had already powered up the Vonnegut’s engines, so I shouted for him to lift off as soon as I was aboard. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Kurt Vonnegut asked, “Can you teach me how to hang out?” Books of The Times: ?Lucky Bruce,? a Memoir by Bruce Jay Friedman - Review 2011-10-10T22:35:49Z From 1982 until his death 25 years later, Kurt Vonnegut cooperated with director Robert Weide on a documentary about his life and work. Long-delayed Kurt Vonnegut documentary launches Kickstarter campaign 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Wholly original, and by turns annoying and exhilarating, this antidote to formula fiction reads like Douglas Adams channelling William Burroughs channelling Ionesco, spiced with the comic brio of Vonnegut. Science fiction roundup – reviews 2013-07-18T09:00:00Z Like Kurt Vonnegut said, “And so it goes.” The end of Rikers Island, a stain on New York, can't come soon enough 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z Vonnegut threw a book at the wall and walked out of the class. I Was a Teenage Samuel Beckett: Or, My Literary Biography Problem 2012-01-11T17:47:41Z One writer, Corey Michael Dalton, is taking his celebration of banned literature to the extreme, and will be spending the week in the window of Indianapolis's Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. No sex please, we're American – Banned Books Week turns 30 2012-09-28T15:36:14Z But in the end it’s still Kurt Vonnegut’s mind relaying to us how good that vitamin tonic in “Slaughterhouse-Five” makes our guy feel. Why meals are movie magic: The best food scenes in film history 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z A dyspeptic satire that owes much to Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon, “Antkind” has in Rosenberg a contrarian whose tomatoes are always rotten. Review | Charlie Kaufman’s debut novel, ‘Antkind,’ is just as loopy and clever as his movies 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Stop me if you’ve heard this one: I once stalked Kurt Vonnegut. How Kurt Vonnegut Found His Voice and His Themes 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Publishers were showing up at Vonnegut’s parties, which turned into handpicked parties, where the best of the students would be matched with the publishers and put on a fast track. Inside Creative Writing’s Premier Talent Factory 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Eventually, Vonnegut succumbed to that bafflingly common condition among the wealthy: being broke. Kurt Vonnegut: Letters edited by Dan Wakefield – review 2013-04-18T07:01:01Z Burger switched trades, becoming an agent, Vonnegut reneged on a promise to become his client, saying he could not forsake the loyal Max Wilkinson. Kurt Vonnegut: Letters edited by Dan Wakefield – review 2013-04-18T07:01:01Z In his advice on writing, Vonnegut suggests, “If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out.” 21 Pieces of Writing Advice From Stephen King 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z But when Ms. Vonnegut was growing up on Cape Cod, she had no idea what he’d gone through. Kurt Vonnegut’s Vietnam-Era Play Lands With a Gasp 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Broyard was scarcely wrong to say that Vonnegut's reputation suffered a blow with each new book; he is a classic example of a writer whose renown endures through the success of a single novel. Kurt Vonnegut: Letters edited by Dan Wakefield – review 2013-04-18T07:01:01Z And fashion is based on middle-class, middlebrow values, despite the mock defiance of an occasional licensed fool, like Vonnegut. Interview: Gore Vidal 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z I decided to read the entire Kurt Vonnegut canon. The hoarder, the corpse and the overnight shift: My summer as a Manhattan doorman 2013-12-16T01:00:00Z Pain, torment and morality were all themes Vonnegut worked with, too. Happy birthday, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Kurt Vonnegut! 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Kurt Vonnegut wrote a new text, basing the story loosely on that of Pvt. Stravinsky?s Devil, Reignited 2011-06-03T18:21:16Z His moving through time “seems to me a conspicuously therapeutic response to Dresden,” said Sidney Offit, an author who was good friends with Vonnegut later in life. From Dresden on the 50th Anniversary of ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Vonnegut was all too familiar with the syndrome. A Staging for Vonnegut’s ‘Make Up Your Mind’ 2013-05-19T21:35:48Z For Franco, who’s pursuing a PhD at Yale University while maintaining his busy moviemaking career, this project offered the chance to spend two full days immersed in his favorite Vonnegut book. And so it goes: James Franco narrates ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Scroggins's complaints sparked a review by the district school board, which voted this week to keep Speak but to remove the novels by Vonnegut and Ockler. Slaughterhouse-Five banned by US school 2011-07-29T11:48:43Z Billy Pilgrim is an adult to whom Vonnegut gives the innocence of a child. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z And exactly 101 years later, 5,000 miles away, Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis. Happy birthday, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Kurt Vonnegut! 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z I always like the answer Kurt Vonnegut gave to the standard question, “Where do you get your ideas?” Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z In this work of satire and science fiction, Vonnegut imagines a human species that has evolved to have smaller brains, flippers and beaks for catching food. What To Read Before Your Galápagos Vacation 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z July honorable mention: "And So It Goes," starring Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton and directed by Rob Reiner, takes its name from Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" -- but this film has nothing to do with the novel. The literary films of summer 2014 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Things scarcely improved through Vonnegut's eighth decade, for him or Lily: "Jill and I are not speaking, thank goodness, and I am on the mend." Kurt Vonnegut: Letters edited by Dan Wakefield – review 2013-04-18T07:01:01Z In 1985, Moore wrote for the Book Review about “Galápagos,” Kurt Vonnegut’s novel about a group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands because of an apocalypse. Considering Kurt Vonnegut and Who Survives 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Vonnegut's son Mark wrote in a recent memoir that his father went "from being poor to being famous and rich in the blink of an eye". Kurt Vonnegut: Letters edited by Dan Wakefield – review 2013-04-18T07:01:01Z At the Iowa Writers’ Workshop one of her teachers was Kurt Vonnegut. Review | Gail Godwin has been writing novels for 50 years. Her latest proves she has no intention of coasting. 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z But Kurt Vonnegut, that clown-poet of homesickness and Armageddon, might be the rare American writer who is both. Considering Kurt Vonnegut and Who Survives 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Vonnegut used a big sheet of paper to mock scientific reductionism and social science in particular. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z Maybe it’s true what Kurt Vonnegut wrote: you always hear it after the battlefield empties. Dance Review: A Duet, Delicately Spun And Formally Elegant 2011-01-27T23:10:29Z It has fallen to Ronson to carry Vonnegut’s project from fiction to reality. Jon Ronson’s ‘So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed’ 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Vonnegut’s narrator, Leon Trout, spoke to the benefits of these rollbacks. Shades of Atwood and Vonnegut in Louise Erdrich’s Dystopian Novel 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z It can be hard, at times, to follow every word of every letter in the audio version; Vonnegut enjoys jumping between forms and playing with the possibilities of language within the constraints of correspondence. Audiobooks to Get You Through the Most Distracted of Times 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z “I have four brothers, who were all up for the draft,” Ms. Vonnegut said recently. Kurt Vonnegut’s Vietnam-Era Play Lands With a Gasp 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z “At the root of a lot of art,” wrote Nanette Vonnegut, Kurt’s daughter, in a passage Newton quotes, is an “injury that needs addressing.” From Family Trees to 23andMe, and Back Again 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Fifty years after its first publication, seventy-four years after Kurt Vonnegut was inside Slaughterhouse-Five during the firebombing of Dresden, what does his great novel have to say to us? What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z A previously unpublished novella by Kurt Vonnegut will be released on Friday by RosettaBooks, close to 60 years after it was written, the publisher said on Thursday. ArtsBeat: Previously Unpublished Vonnegut Novella to Be Released 2012-03-22T23:00:10Z Shields, who had planned to spend years interviewing Vonnegut, got three months. 'And So It Goes': Kurt Vonnegut, disenchanted genius 2011-11-18T23:12:32Z Kurt Vonnegut once said that he never put a love story in anything because when you put a love story in something, people get stupid. 'Fargo' mastermind Noah Hawley makes stranger-than-fiction real 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z It will also display other exhibitions and the organization’s large collection of Vonnegut artifacts and memorabilia. Kurt Vonnegut museum raises $1.5M for new Indianapolis home 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Even in 1986, Vonnegut mused that his path was about as relevant “as how to repair a Model T.” How Kurt Vonnegut Found His Voice and His Themes 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z But there is, as his evolutionary thought experiment, Galapagos, shows, a little purpose, one that, at least in Vonnegut’s capable narrative, both we and our imaginary progeny share. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z Snider’s love of reading shows in this collection of cartoons for boisterous bookworms, with odes to poetry, children in libraries and banned books as well as comic takes on writers from Murakami to Vonnegut. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z There are gifts for fans of Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut and more. Some favorite gifts (that aren't books) for book lovers 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z I read quite a bit, a lot of old books, Vonnegut and Charles Bukowski, Tennessee Williams, Voltaire. Dylan LeBlanc: 'Songs are like headstones to me' 2010-08-19T21:30:00Z “And somewhere in there it was springtime,” Vonnegut writes, and in the last moment of the book, birds, once again, begin to sing. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z “I also love the Kurt Vonnegut letter, which was written after he had survived the firebombing of Dresden, because you can see his budding writing talents,” Carroll says. Free Seattle performance shares wartime letters 2013-08-12T01:13:57Z A second link between these works by Miller, Vonnegut, and Haldeman, is humor. A Science-Fiction Classic Still Smolders 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Longtime readers will recognize familiar Vonnegut characters and settings alongside pleas for peace and personal decency. How Kurt Vonnegut Found His Voice and His Themes 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Inspired by Vonnegut’s experience as a prisoner of war during the bombing of the German city of Dresden, “Slaughterhouse-Five” is widely considered one of the greatest satirical novels of the 20th century. And so it goes: James Franco narrates ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Kurt Vonnegut is a deeply ironic writer who has sometimes been read as if he were not. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Some Vonnegut fans may be unaware that the author of “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Cat’s Cradle” and “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater” wrote for the theater. A Staging for Vonnegut’s ‘Make Up Your Mind’ 2013-05-19T21:35:48Z Vonnegut’s agent told him once when a story was rejected, “Save it for the collection of your works which will be published someday when you become famous. Which may take a little time.” New books by dead authors 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z “Our objective as a company is not to be highly political. Our objective as a company is to tell the story that Kurt Vonnegut wrote.” Kurt Vonnegut’s Vietnam-Era Play Lands With a Gasp 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Its final passage describes the end of the war and the liberation of the prisoners, who include Billy Pilgrim and Vonnegut himself. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Vonnegut died in 2007 at the age of 84, gone but destined to never be forgotten. From Dresden on the 50th Anniversary of ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z He funded his film on Vonnegut, the popular satirical author of "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Breakfast of Champions," in fits and starts by himself. Long-delayed Kurt Vonnegut documentary launches Kickstarter campaign 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Marrying Krementz would turn out to be one of Vonnegut's biggest regrets. Kurt Vonnegut: Letters edited by Dan Wakefield – review 2013-04-18T07:01:01Z Vonnegut ultimately gave up on writing stories, put off by what he saw as their contrivance: “Short stories are artificial; they are very clever misrepresentations of life,” Vonnegut told me, in 1997. Roald Dahl’s Twisted, Overlooked Stories for Adults 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z London Bubble's latest piece of fan-made theatre, an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's 1959 space epic, The Sirens of Titan, begins its tour of green spaces in London at Sydenham Wells Park. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2010-07-23T15:53:00Z Charles Shields's biography of Vonnegut, And So It Goes, appeared last year, but there is no substitute for a well-rounded collection of letters. Kurt Vonnegut: Letters edited by Dan Wakefield – review 2013-04-18T07:01:01Z In that nonfictional first chapter, Vonnegut tells us how hard the book was to write, how hard it was for him to deal with war. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z The paper ran an editorial asking, “How many of you read your first Vonnegut book in August?” Books of The Times: Charles J. Shields?s ?And So It Goes,? on Vonnegut - Review 2011-11-02T23:41:53Z Over the years the workshop’s faculty and students have included some of the biggest names in American literature — Philip Roth, Flannery O’Connor and Kurt Vonnegut among them. Iowa exudes a decency that even politics can’t undo 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z “This was serious business,” he wrote in an essay called “Mr. Vonnegut in Sumatra,” which appears in “The Braindead Megaphone.” George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year 2013-01-06T19:57:18Z Vonnegut used his early short fiction to test the themes that animated his later novels: the cruel stupidity of war, the dehumanizing dangers of technology; the devolution of American values into greed and selfishness. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Of course, Vonnegut’s is not the last word on the subject. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z In 1965, Kurt Vonnegut reminded us earthlings that there is only one rule for living on this planet: You’ve got to be kind. 'My HIV Child Is Playing with Your Child, and You Don't Know It' 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z This cheerfulness in spite of everything is Vonnegut’s characteristic note. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z But as Kurt Vonnegut put it, Welcome to the monkey house. Anne Lamott: My secret little prayer 2012-11-13T00:30:00Z So Grove must finds himself in physical jeopardy, and Mr. Vonnegut’s writing style takes a temporary dive. Books of The Times: ‘The Trust’ by Norb Vonnegut 2012-07-15T19:46:07Z Vonnegut said no, but Shields flattered and persisted until Vonnegut agreed. 'And So It Goes': Kurt Vonnegut, disenchanted genius 2011-11-18T23:12:32Z On March 14 of '07, Vonnegut fell down the steps of his Manhattan brownstone. 'And So It Goes': Kurt Vonnegut, disenchanted genius 2011-11-18T23:12:32Z He is a son of Lindsay Palermo and Kurt Adams of Leverett, Mass. The groom’s great-uncle, who raised his father, was the author Kurt Vonnegut. Kiana Scott, Alexander Adams 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Whether he knew it or not, Vonnegut was improvising a self-help manual for psychic pain at a time when many young Americans needed it most. From Dresden on the 50th Anniversary of ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z When I was a young author, I wrote to Kurt Vonnegut. 'And So It Goes': Kurt Vonnegut, disenchanted genius 2011-11-18T23:12:32Z The savage comedy of Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five corresponded to his own gift for laughter and pessimism in harness. Dave Sheasby obituary 2010-04-01T17:46:00Z A New Yorker article published five years ago, when the first small batch of these letters was made public, appeared beneath the headline, “How Jane Vonnegut Made Kurt Vonnegut a Writer.” Review | What Kurt Vonnegut’s rapturous love letters reveal about him as a writer — and husband 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Vonnegut, USA Anthology composed of five short stories by author Kurt Vonnegut. L.A. theater openings, Oct. 9-16: Pat Kinevane's 'Underneath' and more 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Shields looked, but there was no entry for Vonnegut. 'And So It Goes': Kurt Vonnegut, disenchanted genius 2011-11-18T23:12:32Z Vonnegut said it beautifully – he said we should be continually jumping off the edge of a cliff and developing our wings on the way down. Colum McCann: a life in writing 2013-05-25T07:30:01Z Last year I read Charles J. Shields’ biography of Kurt Vonnegut, who was abrasive and difficult and unfaithful — he tried to keep people at a distance, and he succeeded. I Was a Teenage Samuel Beckett: Or, My Literary Biography Problem 2012-01-11T17:47:41Z So I would say that Vonnegut, though he was joking, was basically right. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z If someone else wrote this book, it’d just be a historical novel, but Vonnegut has all these different ironical layers that turn it into something else. And so it goes: James Franco narrates ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z But everything about Greenwich is glamorous, if Mr. Vonnegut is to be believed. Critic?s Notebook: Books to Bury Yourself In 2011-05-26T22:07:19Z At Shortridge High, she wrote for the school newspaper and, with her classmate Kurt Vonnegut, joined the school’s fiction club. Madelyn Pugh Davis, Writer for ?I Love Lucy,? Dies at 90 2011-04-21T21:33:52Z It could also be that few, if any, contemporary highbrow authors wield as much mainstream influence as Hemingway, Steinbeck and Vonnegut once did. Got a Best Seller? Chipotle May Come Calling. 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Claire mentioned that she was reading a collection of short stories by Kurt Vonnegut. Date Lab: Talking politics on a first date is usually a no-no. But it couldn’t be avoided after a year like this one. 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z That young man, faced with Vonnegut’s masterpiece, responded most strongly to the sci-fi aspects of the book. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Kurt Vonnegut wasn't the first to suggest that the Bible be improved to make the gospels' moral message clearer. Religion is not really about ethics 2011-04-08T17:15:52Z We learn that Ethan’s recently widowed father refuses to leave his bedroom, leaving Ethan to shop for groceries, cook their meals and plow through the novels of Kurt Vonnegut on his lonesome. Beautiful Creatures: The New Girl in Town 2013-02-14T04:30:06Z But Mr. Vonnegut seems eventually to get where he wants, shining his multicolored lights and science fiction “what ifs” on the huge spiritual mistake that is the Western world. Considering Kurt Vonnegut and Who Survives 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z The lesson he learned was the thing he sensed all those years ago in Sumatra, reading but not fully grasping Vonnegut. George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year 2013-01-06T19:57:18Z I have a great clip of Kurt Vonnegut making fun of the whole thing. Q&A: Richard Linklater on time, nostalgia & ‘Apollo 10 1/2’ 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Vonnegut ranks among the most moral of male novelists writing in English. Jon Ronson’s ‘So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed’ 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z When, after the first night of bombing, Vonnegut, an Army private, emerged with his fellow POWs from the basement of the slaughterhouse in which they were being held captive, they found, he wrote, “a moonscape.” Perspective | The most stirring photo from the Apollo mission wasn’t of the moon. It was of the Earth. 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z This was music to Ben’s ears, as Vonnegut is his favorite author. Date Lab: Talking politics on a first date is usually a no-no. But it couldn’t be avoided after a year like this one. 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Vonnegut may or may not know whereof he speaks, but it helps that he explains stockbrokers while using the royal “we.” Books of The Times: ‘The Trust’ by Norb Vonnegut 2012-07-15T19:46:07Z His creator, Kurt Vonnegut, was at once the most intellectual of playful fantasists and the most playfully fantastic of intellectuals. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Knowing that the best-selling author was bothered by the lack of a biography, Shields approached Vonnegut about writing one in 2006. 'And So It Goes': Kurt Vonnegut, disenchanted genius 2011-11-18T23:12:32Z The shed belongs to Mr Peterson, an American widower who smokes pot, loves Kurt Vonnegut and fought in Vietnam, and Alex's friendship with Peterson fills the remaining three-quarters of the book. The Universe versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence – review 2013-03-15T17:45:01Z One recently ordered a complete set of the Oxford Mark Twain, a 29-volume collection of works by the beloved American author with forewords by Kurt Vonnegut, E.L. Island Books creates a reading oasis on Mercer Island 2010-06-28T03:36:00Z Photograph: Private archive So it quite rightly goes: a library celebrating the life and work of novelist and humanist Kurt Vonnegut is set to open in Indianapolis this autumn. Kurt Vonnegut memorial library to open in Indianapolis 2010-08-19T13:22:00Z Vonnegut’s breakthrough novel was one that was hugely difficult to write. ‘Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time’ Review: An Idol Shares the Camera 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Quick literary note: This Mr. Vonnegut a distant cousin of the better-known one. Books of The Times: ‘The Trust’ by Norb Vonnegut 2012-07-15T19:46:07Z Writer Kurt Vonnegut provides a similar insight: “Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about,” he says. 21 Pieces of Writing Advice From Stephen King 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Some of the art is whimsical; Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut, for instance, were inveterate doodlers. Famous writers’ art and design 2012-07-03T00:00:00Z “I wrote so much about mothers,” he said, “and Vonnegut wrote so much about fathers.” A Staging for Vonnegut’s ‘Make Up Your Mind’ 2013-05-19T21:35:48Z The late Kurt Vonnegut employed a comparably whimsical strain in much of his work, but that whimsy was offset by a deeply pessimistic vision of the human situation. ‘Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life,’ by Tom Robbins The Second World War, as Vonnegut reminds us, was a children’s crusade. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z “Severance” also plays off the often cultlike devotion some companies foster, with one influence being the made-up religion called Bokonon in Vonnegut’s book. What ‘Severance’ Is Made of: ‘Being John Malkovich’ and a Sizzler Steakhouse 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z It’s classic Vonnegut, one of many nuggets of dark humor in “Love, Kurt,” a collection of letters discovered by Edith, the couple’s oldest daughter, in the attic of the family’s home on Cape Cod. Review | What Kurt Vonnegut’s rapturous love letters reveal about him as a writer — and husband 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Vonnegut would later compare the sound of bombs stomping across the earth overhead to the footsteps of giants. From Dresden on the 50th Anniversary of ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut It's ridiculous of me to place it at number one, or to even call it illustrated. Jim Bob's top 10 illustrated books for adults 2010-05-05T10:32:00Z He was in fact an avowed anti-fascist — in his politics, and in his funny, rueful war-weariness, he belongs to the lineage of Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut. In Praise of Karel Capek 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Vonnegut wrote the play in 1970, as the Vietnam War dragged and raged, and on the face of it, this seems an odd time to bring it back. Review: Toxic Masculinity, Vonnegut Style, in ‘Happy Birthday, Wanda June’ 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Vonnegut was on more solid ground when he considered whether the young Wolfe more resembled Mark Twain or an extra member of the Beatles. Tom Wolfe Kept a Close, Comical and Astonished Eye on America 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z "I thank you for your comments on how slowly my literary career is dying," Vonnegut told the notoriously severe Broyard. Kurt Vonnegut: Letters edited by Dan Wakefield – review 2013-04-18T07:01:01Z It has been immortalised by Constable, Wordsworth, Hardy and Vonnegut. Stonehenge: a new dawn 2012-08-19T19:00:04Z When Vonnegut was 20, it was the middle of the second world war and he was a soldier. My hero: Kurt Vonnegut by Alison Moore 2012-10-05T21:55:18Z The Porcini Test A woman under house arrest is visited by old friends and lovers, etc., in the world premiere of Laureen Vonnegut's dark comedy. L.A. theater openings, July 12-19: 'Girlfriend' and more 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z I even own a copy of the novel “Venus on the Half-Shell,” in which the writer Philip José Farmer took a Trout story written by Vonnegut and expanded it to novel length. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Offit, who is 90, recalled that Vonnegut, his former tennis and lunch buddy, often confided in him about his wartime trauma. From Dresden on the 50th Anniversary of ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Kurt Vonnegut always says, "Every writer needs an attic." How Airborne Toxic Event's album "Hollywood Park" became the "soundtrack" to Mikel Jollett's memoir 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z This November the non-profit library will open its doors to the public, offering access to books about and by Vonnegut as well as a replica of his writing studio. Kurt Vonnegut memorial library to open in Indianapolis 2010-08-19T13:22:00Z Kurt Vonnegut was a very good letter writer, too. By the Book : John Irving: By the Book 2012-06-07T15:45:22Z The documentary “Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time” takes the importance of the novelist as a given, although years after his death in 2007, his ostensible significance still sets off conflicts on social media. ‘Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time’ Review: An Idol Shares the Camera 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z In his advice on writing, Vonnegut also recommends that writers “use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.” 21 Pieces of Writing Advice From Stephen King 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z I believe the writer Kurt Vonnegut touched on the heart of this question. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z Kurt Vonnegut hosted wild parties at his house. Inside Creative Writing’s Premier Talent Factory 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Events marking the 10th anniversary of his death will include a spring move for the Kurt Vonnegut Museum Library into a building with more space for shows that will include a survey of banned books. A Year to Toast Independence, Reformation and Satire 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Vonnegut and his first wife, Jane, raised three orphaned nephews as well as their own three children, in a cacophonous house on Cape Cod. Books of The Times: Charles J. Shields?s ?And So It Goes,? on Vonnegut - Review 2011-11-02T23:41:53Z Quick psychiatric note: In each of Norb Vonnegut’s earlier books a person was devoured by a carnivore of another species. Books of The Times: ‘The Trust’ by Norb Vonnegut 2012-07-15T19:46:07Z "One guy I knew," Vonnegut writes at the start of the novel, "really was shot in Dresden for taking a teapot that wasn't his." My hero: Kurt Vonnegut by Alison Moore 2012-10-05T21:55:18Z Mr. Vonnegut further revs up “The Trust” by going beyond Palmetto’s questionable business dealings. Books of The Times: ‘The Trust’ by Norb Vonnegut 2012-07-15T19:46:07Z But Jared’s unforced drollery and naive aperçus resemble nothing so much as late-period Vonnegut. Review | Simon Stephenson’s hilarious ‘Set My Heart to Five’ follows a robot with Hollywood aspirations 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z The late author with his son Mark, who sits on the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library's board of directors. Kurt Vonnegut memorial library to open in Indianapolis 2010-08-19T13:22:00Z "The sky it burns, the blackbirds cry / in this world where I will die," runs one number, while another quotes Vonnegut on mankind's existential confusion. Reverend Billy ? review 2011-07-19T18:00:04Z These days, of course, we are accustomed to the detailed examination of pop culture in literary fiction, with novelists such as Pynchon, Vonnegut and David Foster Wallace writing in detail about TV and related ephemera. Rock stars in fiction 2011-03-17T16:00:50Z Vonnegut was passionate about human connection and treating one another decently. My hero: Kurt Vonnegut by Alison Moore 2012-10-05T21:55:18Z There are shades of Vonnegut in Wright, and shades of John Irving’s Owen Meany in the precocious Harold. Meet ‘Harold,’ a Dreamy Third Grader With a Lot on His Mind 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z The result is a realistic alternate history of the field which harks back to Kurt Vonnegut’s imagined works of Kilgore Trout. Review | Bibliophiles love the mystery of a missing manuscript. ‘The Lost Book of Adana Moreau’ is just what they’re looking for. 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z My favorite novels of all time include: “Dracula,” by Bram Stoker; “Frankenstein,” by Mary Shelley; “Breakfast of Champions,” by Kurt Vonnegut; and the Harry Potter series. Dear Match Book: Genre Fiction by Black Writers, About Black Characters 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Indianapolis has declared 2017 the Year of Vonnegut for its native son Kurt Vonnegut, who wrote “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Cat’s Cradle” and other novels and plays. A Year to Toast Independence, Reformation and Satire 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z He describes Kurt Vonnegut’s view of the universe as “basically atrocious, a vast sea of cruelty and indifference” — the legacy of witnessing the firebombing of Dresden firsthand during World War II. Books of The Times: ?Higher Gossip? by John Updike - Review 2011-11-28T22:39:39Z But as Jason O’Connell proves in a hilarious and explosive performance as Harold, the cult of masculinity that Vonnegut lampooned is still with us, absurd and menacing and terribly, terribly vain. Review: Toxic Masculinity, Vonnegut Style, in ‘Happy Birthday, Wanda June’ 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Vonnegut signed his letter to me, "Fraternally, Brother Vonnegut." 'While Mortals Sleep': A posthumous collection of Kurt Vonnegut's big-hearted stories 2011-02-10T00:28:03Z Initially attributed to novelist Kurt Vonnegut, it later became the lyrics to a hit song. Tribune's Mary Schmich wins Pulitzer Prize 2012-04-17T04:08:00Z Fifty years ago this week, Kurt Vonnegut published the dystopian classic “Slaughterhouse-Five.” Sunday Reading: Dystopian Fiction 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z It shows Kurt Vonnegut, appearing in a black-and-white television clip, saying that the government would do better to spend the money on such things as making New York City “habitable.” “First Man,” Reviewed: Damien Chazelle’s Neil Armstrong Bio-Pic Is an Accidental Right-Wing Fetish Object 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Vonnegut was not afraid, in correspondence or fiction, to tell people how things ought to be, or how we ought to be. 'While Mortals Sleep': A posthumous collection of Kurt Vonnegut's big-hearted stories 2011-02-10T00:28:03Z Kurt Vonnegut, who died in 2007, profoundly influenced thousands of writers. 'While Mortals Sleep': A posthumous collection of Kurt Vonnegut's big-hearted stories 2011-02-10T00:28:03Z And for the first part of his writing career Vonnegut successfully compartmentalized his familial and writerly personas. Books of The Times: Charles J. Shields?s ?And So It Goes,? on Vonnegut - Review 2011-11-02T23:41:53Z “He was the perfect collaborator,” Mr. Silver said of Vonnegut. A Staging for Vonnegut’s ‘Make Up Your Mind’ 2013-05-19T21:35:48Z “Excellent book by a genius who will do anything to get attention,” wrote Kurt Vonnegut in his review. Your Tom Wolfe Reader 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Below, he discusses the workshop’s founder, Irving defending Vonnegut’s honor in a fight, how Ralph Waldo Emerson helped to inspire this book and more. Inside Creative Writing’s Premier Talent Factory 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z The sorrows of Warsaw have been immortalised in numerous films, the powdered silence of Dresden in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. War Requiem; King Priam; Caligula – review 2012-06-02T23:05:59Z But Vonnegut, of course, meant to get that response. Kurt Vonnegut’s Vietnam-Era Play Lands With a Gasp 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Vonnegut himself, as Wakefield writes, puzzled over his inability to “do women well.” How Kurt Vonnegut Found His Voice and His Themes 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Norb Vonnegut offers a gleeful peek at the world of hedge fund moguls in The Gods of Greenwich, a funny, savvy book that can be as absurd as its title. Critic?s Notebook: Books to Bury Yourself In 2011-05-26T22:07:19Z This is the Kurt Vonnegut I want to remember, the generous novelist who viewed writers as kin, the wry humanist who believed we all must be kind, the active citizen who imagined a better world. 'And So It Goes': Kurt Vonnegut, disenchanted genius 2011-11-18T23:12:32Z "We are all what we pretend to be," Kurt Vonnegut writes in "Mother Night," and when "No Reservations" takes Bourdain to Rome he pretends to be a suave star of '60s Italian cinema. Chasing Anthony Bourdain’s “perfect little things”: Kitchen work and what I hungered for 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Evolution’s dirty secrets Topics: , , , , Carl Sagan, Kurt Vonnegut, , Excerpted from "Cosmic Apprentice: Dispatches From the Edges of Science" Why are we here? Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z Mr. Shields means to separate image from perception: He depicts Vonnegut as an essentially conservative Midwesterner, proud of his German heritage and capitalist instincts, who developed an aura of radical chic. Books of The Times: Charles J. Shields?s ?And So It Goes,? on Vonnegut - Review 2011-11-02T23:41:53Z Kurt Vonnegut: Lettersby Kurt Vonnegut As fiction editor of Collier's magazine in the 1940s, Burger had paid Vonnegut large sums at the start of his career – $750 for a story in 1949. Kurt Vonnegut: Letters edited by Dan Wakefield – review 2013-04-18T07:01:01Z The 26-year-old’s fingers are inked below the knuckles with letters that read “So it goes” when he puts his fists together, remnants of an early infatuation with Kurt Vonnegut. Orcas Island’s farmer-chef 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z This essay is adapted from the introduction to a new, 50th-anniversary edition of “Slaughterhouse-Five,” by Kurt Vonnegut, published this month by Modern Library. The Moral Clarity of ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ at 50 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Vonnegut’s novel is about that, about the inevitability of human violence, and about what it does to the not particularly violent human beings who get caught up in it. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z After Mr. Vonnegut died in 2007, a trove of his unpublished work remained in Indiana, where he was born. ArtsBeat: Previously Unpublished Vonnegut Novella to Be Released 2012-03-22T23:00:10Z That novel was “War and Peace,” which is longer than Heller’s book and Vonnegut’s book combined and isn’t funny at all. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z As a composer, Mr. Barab was most famous for vocal works, including settings of texts by writers as diverse as Dryden, Yeats and Kurt Vonnegut. Seymour Barab, 93, Composer of Playful Operas, Dies 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Vonnegut was driven into his study time and again to fight his own internal battle, and at last complete a novel inextricably intertwined with the preservation of his soul. From Dresden on the 50th Anniversary of ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z “I remember first coming here when I was Kurt Vonnegut’s editor at 24,” said Morgan Entrekin, the publisher of Grove Atlantic books. Last Call at George Plimpton’s Party Pad 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Kurt Vonnegut: Letters contains an account of his experiences written to his family just after the war, and another from a relative who was comforting "the boy". Kurt Vonnegut: Letters edited by Dan Wakefield – review 2013-04-18T07:01:01Z As Kurt Vonnegut said, “Goodbye is the emptiest yet fullest of all human messages.” This Life: Finding the Words (or Not) to Say Goodbye 2012-12-28T16:31:40Z It actually came from a book Stephen was reading, Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. How we made: New Order's Gillian Gilbert and designer Peter Saville on Blue Monday 2013-02-11T17:31:49Z Recordings of his vocal music include the “Cosmos Cantata” for singers and chamber orchestra, with text by Vonnegut. Seymour Barab, 93, Composer of Playful Operas, Dies 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z There is much comedy in it, as there was in everything Kurt Vonnegut wrote, but it does not see war as farcical. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z “I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters,” Saunders wrote in an essay on Vonnegut. George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year 2013-01-06T19:57:18Z Much of the documentary is devoted to Weide’s decades-long work on the project and to the friendship he developed with Vonnegut. ‘Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time’ Review: An Idol Shares the Camera 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z And although that list includes big names such as “Pretty Little Liars” and Kurt Vonnegut, 24 fandoms is an incredibly small number compared with the unlimited creations on most fan fiction sites. From ‘Fifty Shades’ to ‘After’: Why publishers want fan fiction to go mainstream The answer was a surprising one: Kurt Vonnegut. Craig Ferguson’s “The Late Late Show” Will Be Missed 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Vonnegut believed in laughter as an antidote to pain. Kurt Vonnegut’s Vietnam-Era Play Lands With a Gasp 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z From a view that the ghost of Vonnegut may share, there is no divine purpose in the sense of consecrating human beings as a “chosen” species. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was from Indiana so I read every book of his. Steve Inskeep Is Drawn to Books With Nuanced Female Characters 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Vonnegut dreams up diabolically elegant business crimes, then sends smart-talking characters to follow the money. Books of The Times: ‘The Trust’ by Norb Vonnegut 2012-07-15T19:46:07Z Vonnegut’s daughter Nanette saw the Broadway production and the Wheelhouse staging, too. Kurt Vonnegut’s Vietnam-Era Play Lands With a Gasp 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z In letters to friends, Vonnegut owns up to a lot of anger and a lot of drinking. Kurt Vonnegut: Letters edited by Dan Wakefield – review 2013-04-18T07:01:01Z On the last day Shields saw Vonnegut, the novelist instructed his biographer to look up Kurt Vonnegut in the dictionary. 'And So It Goes': Kurt Vonnegut, disenchanted genius 2011-11-18T23:12:32Z It was a missed opportunity for the composer to visit the state where musicals like “The Prom” and “Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater” are set. Does the Devil Wear Prada in Indiana? 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z So said Kurt Vonnegut, author of some of the most painfully funny literature of the last century. Guardian Books podcast: Humour and Kurt Vonnegut 2012-11-23T14:38:57Z Vonnegut’s prose, even when dealing with the dreadful, whistles a happy tune. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z “Slaughterhouse-Five” tells a story based on Vonnegut’s own experience as a prisoner of war in Dresden in 1945, when Allied forces firebombed that city. Perspective | The most stirring photo from the Apollo mission wasn’t of the moon. It was of the Earth. 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z In one of the many moments that suggest Mr. Murakami takes some of his cosmic rules from Kurt Vonnegut’s playbook, there turn out to be people known as receivers and others known as perceivers. Books of The Times: ?1Q84? by Haruki Murakami - Review 2011-11-09T19:28:08Z His narration of Kurt Vonnegut’s classic 1969 novel completes more than a dozen volumes recorded by Audible Studios in association with the Vonnegut estate. And so it goes: James Franco narrates ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z And this month, the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, dedicated to the city’s favorite literary son, reopened in its new location on Indiana Avenue, just a few blocks north of the Eiteljorg. 36 Hours in Indianapolis 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Vonnegut was a fan of Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin and Monty Python, his daughter said, and she believes he would have been tickled by Wheelhouse’s “Wanda June.” Kurt Vonnegut’s Vietnam-Era Play Lands With a Gasp 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z In Stephenson, Vonnegut may have his first true protege. Review | Simon Stephenson’s hilarious ‘Set My Heart to Five’ follows a robot with Hollywood aspirations 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Vonnegut’s son, the physician Mark Vonnegut, takes a more ethical slant, emphasizing our emotional and physical interconnectedness. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z Vonnegut, of all people, tried to keep me sane. The hoarder, the corpse and the overnight shift: My summer as a Manhattan doorman 2013-12-16T01:00:00Z He thereafter built this biography from interviews with Vonnegut's friends, family and colleagues, as well as letters, articles and, of course, Vonnegut's novels, which Shields seems to know and value. 'And So It Goes': Kurt Vonnegut, disenchanted genius 2011-11-18T23:12:32Z "His whole life was the paper," Mr. Vonnegut observes about a journalist, "and his talking of quitting it was like a trout's talking of quitting a mountain stream to get a job in a five-and-ten." 'While Mortals Sleep': A posthumous collection of Kurt Vonnegut's big-hearted stories 2011-02-10T00:28:03Z Rewards for donors include autographed Vonnegut items, Vonnegut books, T-shirts, other Hollywood memorabilia, a tote bag and a "So it goes" bumper sticker from the Vonnegut library. Long-delayed Kurt Vonnegut documentary launches Kickstarter campaign 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z There are echoes of Douglas Adams and Kurt Vonnegut in the mix of unhinged digressions and moral mad-science. The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman – review 2012-07-26T07:00:02Z And now comes the classic Vonnegut subject of free will, expressed as a comic science-fiction device. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Weyes Blood is - to quote US author Kurt Vonnegut - unstuck in time. Singer Weyes Blood: I feel like I've lived a million lives 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z As the late, great American novelist Kurt Vonnegut would have said, about this and about his currently banned books: "So it goes." Guns, Republicans and "manliness": We all suffer from the right's mental health crisis 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z The plaque also includes a quote from the hero of the Kurt Vonnegut novel, “The Sirens of Titan.” In West Seattle, a rogue sculpture of the infamous Rolf Neslund is saved 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z Purdue attorney Eli Vonnegut said at Tuesday's hearing that the company supports that goal, but will need to build consensus among various stakeholders in its bankruptcy first. Purdue Pharma to sell consumer business for $397 mln 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Wright, for what it’s worth, has never heard of “Calvin and Hobbes” or seen the children’s books featuring that other Harold, but he calls Vonnegut “one of my heroes.” Why deadpan genius comic Steven Wright wrote a novel with no rules 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z One thing they didn’t tamp down is Karunatilaka’s exuberant language and gallows humor, which seem to borrow in equal measure from Salman Rushdie and Kurt Vonnegut. How 2022's Booker Prize winner managed a whirlwind novel and a roller-coaster year 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Kurt Vonnegut wasn’t a scientist, but his writings have influenced countless researchers, even years after his death. Our favorite science news stories of 2022 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z It’s fair to say Rorem was no fan of George Crumb, whom he once dubbed “the Vonnegut of music” and whose work he decried as “six effects in search of a mind.” Review | In the music of two vastly different pianists, echoes of Ned Rorem 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Purdue is hesitant to take that step while its future is uncertain and its bankruptcy plan is tied up in appeals, Vonnegut said. Purdue Pharma to sell consumer business for $397 mln 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z This weary skepticism for the scientific endeavor rings through many of Vonnegut’s 14 novels and dozens of short stories. 100 years after his birth, Kurt Vonnegut is more relevant than ever to science 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z That grimly comic voice carries the imprint of Kurt Vonnegut, whom Karunatilaka calls “the genius I have robbed from the most.” Review | ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’ is a Booker-winning ghost story 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Feiden occasionally showed other artists at her gallery, including the theater illustrator Don Freeman and the writer Kurt Vonnegut, who dabbled in drawing. Margo Feiden, Hirschfeld’s Idiosyncratic Gallerist, Dies at 77 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z He was the smirking successor of Vonnegut and Barthelme, a big-idea humorist with some postmodern acrobatics tossed in. Review | The same George Saunders wears a heavier cloak in ‘Liberation Day’ 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Completing the Kurt Vonnegut quote, this year’s “Everything Was Beautiful” serves as a companion piece to “And Nothing Hurt.” 4 concerts to catch in the D.C. area over the next several days 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Throughout his career, Vonnegut wrote about hypothetical technologies that foresaw not just emergent fields of science such as artificial intelligence and geoengineering, but the ways in which culture and politics shape their effect on society. 100 years after his birth, Kurt Vonnegut is more relevant than ever to science 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Wayne is an inheritor, too, of Vonnegut’s style — winkingly funny, brisk, broadly satirical. Review: Where did it all go wrong for Generation X? Teddy Wayne's new novel breaks it down 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Characters or events in his book call to mind Kurt Vonnegut’s “The Sirens of Titan” and “Cat’s Cradle”; Ray Bradbury’s “The Martian Chronicles,” especially the story “Mars is Heaven!” Review | ‘Invisible Things’ is a science fiction novel with an eye on the now 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Kurt Vonnegut once wrote, “I myself find that I trust my own writing most, and others seem to trust it most, too, when I sound like a person from Indianapolis, which is what I am.” A newish David Foster Wallace novella prompts the question: What made him great? 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z “I read Kurt Vonnegut at that age — he messed me up,” Maddon said. Ty Buttrey returns to the Angels ready to be an asset to the bullpen 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z As a philosopher, Vonnegut was no stranger to science. 100 years after his birth, Kurt Vonnegut is more relevant than ever to science 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z In that regard, “The Great Man Theory” is a kind of update of Kurt Vonnegut’s 1962 novel, “Mother Night,” in which a man pretending to be a Nazi propagandist winds up becoming the real thing. Review: Where did it all go wrong for Generation X? Teddy Wayne's new novel breaks it down 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Those who survive, as Kurt Vonnegut wrote, struggle afterwards to reinvent themselves and their universe which, on some level, will never make sense again. War is the greatest evil: Russia was baited into this crime — but that's no excuse 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Shields, also the author of biographies of Harper Lee and Kurt Vonnegut, offers general readers a well-researched account of Hansberry’s life and conscientious summaries of her literary and political work. Review | Lorraine Hansberry was ahead of her time 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Vonnegut’s book is often categorized as a war novel, but it is about much more than war and, at least to me, feels uncategorizable. Review | Did Kurt Vonnegut have PTSD? And does ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ prove it? 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z But time and time again, the groundbreaking discoveries and newfangled gadgets in Vonnegut’s stories take a turn for the worse. 100 years after his birth, Kurt Vonnegut is more relevant than ever to science 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z As Paul grows more radicalized, the warning of Wayne’s novel echoes the signature line of Vonnegut’s: “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.” Review: Where did it all go wrong for Generation X? Teddy Wayne's new novel breaks it down 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z “Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time” is a documentary portrait of the writer of “Slaughterhouse -Five.” New movies to stream this week: ‘tick, tick . . . BOOM!,’ ‘Prisoners of the Ghostland’ and more 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z For the two-plus hours that we are allowed to share in its protective glow, “Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time” is time most rewardingly spent. Review: A 40-year passion project, 'Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time' is worth your attention 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Roston himself acknowledges the reductivism he’s engaged in when he writes, “I imagine reducing his book to a clinical diagnosis or, perhaps worse, putting it in the self-help category, would make Vonnegut shudder.” Review | Did Kurt Vonnegut have PTSD? And does ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ prove it? 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z The deep distrust that haunts Vonnegut’s stories stemmed in part from his own traumatic experiences with products of modern science. 100 years after his birth, Kurt Vonnegut is more relevant than ever to science 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z And like Vonnegut, Wayne is concerned with nefarious authority figures and classist injustices. Review: Where did it all go wrong for Generation X? Teddy Wayne's new novel breaks it down 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Kurt Vonnegut, the space race and the nuclear arms race were among the topics the teens studied. Granada Hills Charter High wins 8th academic decathlon 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z Some passages read like an absurdist novel by Kurt Vonnegut or Joseph Heller. 'It is the question of the century': will tech solve the climate crisis – or make it worse? 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z The difference between the two might tell us about ourselves, and the hyper-sensitized time in which we live, as opposed to shedding new light on Vonnegut. Review | Did Kurt Vonnegut have PTSD? And does ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ prove it? 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z “I was sickened by this use of technology that I had had such great hopes for,” Vonnegut told journalist Robert Musil in 1980, “and so I came to fear it.” 100 years after his birth, Kurt Vonnegut is more relevant than ever to science 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z I was reminded of a line from Kurt Vonnegut, whose work this movie sometimes recalls in its cheeky approach to metaphysics: “I am a human being, not a human doing.” Review: It's not quite 'Inside Out,' but Pixar's metaphysical comedy 'Soul' will lift your spirits 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Science fiction was not on her radar, despite the similarity of her book’s title to “The Sirens of Titan,” Kurt Vonnegut’s cosmic novel. Coming of Age on Mars 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Kurt Vonnegut Jr., the author of “Slaughterhouse-Five,” once asked him, “Can you teach me how to hang out?” Bruce Jay Friedman, novelist, playwright with an edge of ‘black humor,’ dies at 90 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z When Vonnegut says his experiences left him thoughtful, this seems a superior diagnosis than that of PTSD. Review | Did Kurt Vonnegut have PTSD? And does ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ prove it? 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Vonnegut’s scorn extended to humanity’s destruction of the environment—particularly later in his career, as social and political gathered steam. 100 years after his birth, Kurt Vonnegut is more relevant than ever to science 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Or something from science fiction or comics that taught me to poke, prod and test the universe – Alan Moore, Stan Lee or Kurt Vonnegut. Books to broaden your horizons, by Hilary Mantel, Simon Schama, Lisa Taddeo and more 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z The book that changed my life Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions. David Sedaris: 'Alan Bennett's Talking Heads is pretty much the best thing ever' 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Kurt Vonnegut survived the bombing as a prisoner of war in Dresden. Why a historic German city was destroyed in 1945 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z The novel closely hews to key episodes in Vonnegut’s experience but extravagantly plays with time, jumping from years before the war to decades after and back again in a single page. Review | Did Kurt Vonnegut have PTSD? And does ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ prove it? 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z After speaking at the first Earth Day in 1970, Vonnegut made major revisions to prepublication drafts of Breakfast of Champions to focus the book more on pressing climate issues. 100 years after his birth, Kurt Vonnegut is more relevant than ever to science 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z As a teenager, he found a copy of Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” in the library of the Wells Cathedral School, “at the time perhaps the only example of modern American literature in the entire building.” Librarians honor books by Luiselli and Higginbotham 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z Not only did Vonnegut throw open a window to varying shades of gray, but he also revealed brilliant colors with that wild and random prose of his. Opinion | The Book That Changed My Life 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z As Kurt Vonnegut said, “We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.” Capitalism has warped our understanding of community — and it's making us vulnerable to manipulation 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z This layer of self-doubt enriches his study of “Slaughterhouse-Five” and makes his analysis of Vonnegut more interesting. Review | Did Kurt Vonnegut have PTSD? And does ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ prove it? 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z But the United States has largely ignored Vonnegut’s message because it views precaution as “getting in the way of innovation,” says Sheila Jasanoff, a science studies scholar at Harvard University. 100 years after his birth, Kurt Vonnegut is more relevant than ever to science 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z They’re currently working their way through “Welcome to the Monkey House,” a selection of short stories by Kurt Vonnegut. Rosario Dawson Joins Her Love on the ‘Lead With Love’ Tour 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z My life took a turn at age 17 when I discovered Kurt Vonnegut’s “Welcome to the Monkey House.” Opinion | The Book That Changed My Life 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Kurt Vonnegut asked his adult son what he thought the meaning of life was, and his son replied: “We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.” Frankie Boyle’s election countdown: 'You’ll be praying they prorogue the next parliament' 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Drain, the judge, also allowed the company to continue covering legal fees for current and former employees, which Vonnegut estimated wouldn’t exceed $1.5 million per month. Purdue Pharma to stay in business as bankruptcy unfolds 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Vonnegut urged scientists themselves to step up to the plate. 100 years after his birth, Kurt Vonnegut is more relevant than ever to science 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z I was reminded of one of my favourite passages from Kurt Vonnegut in Slaughterhouse-Five: The glaciers of Iceland seemed eternal. Now a country mourns their loss | Andri Snær Magnason 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Vonnegut’s stories sent me off on more literary joy rides, to different authors and genres. Opinion | The Book That Changed My Life 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z For example, on Aug. 3 the library held a Vonnegut Reading Marathon, where several people read “Slaughterhouse-Five” from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Project calls attention to changing role of libraries 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z It, like Kurt Vonnegut’s anti-war “Slaughterhouse-Five,” published eight years later in 1969, would shape a skeptical generation no longer bound to the World War II ethos and unquestioned patriotism of its parents. Why Joseph Heller's ‘Catch-22’ is a relevant antiwar satire in the age of Trump 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z The danger, Vonnegut explained, comes when scientists get so sucked into their work that they disregard their responsibility to humans and the planet. 100 years after his birth, Kurt Vonnegut is more relevant than ever to science 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Vonnegut is one of my favourite writers. Top 10 end-of-the-world novels 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z The code would become more meaningful when Vonnegut died weeks later, on April 11. Reading ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ in Baghdad: What Vonnegut taught me about what comes after war 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z In 1981, when Algren was even closer to obscurity, another admirer, Kurt Vonnegut, succeeded in having him elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Nelson Algren’s Street Cred 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Vonnegut was one of them, and for 20 years afterwards — he writes in the first chapter of Slaughterhouse-Five — he tried to write a book about it. Rereading Slaughterhouse-Five on its 50th anniversary 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z As an example, he pointed to Irving Langmuir, a chemistry Nobel laureate, colleague of Vonnegut’s brother, and the inspiration for the amoral physicist in Cat’s Cradle. 100 years after his birth, Kurt Vonnegut is more relevant than ever to science 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Vonnegut writes with a dark humour, satirising the arms race and humanity’s stupidity. Top 10 end-of-the-world novels 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Vonnegut was there, along with Billy Pilgrim, his fictional protagonist. Reading ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ in Baghdad: What Vonnegut taught me about what comes after war 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z They’re in a class of their own, though they contain faint traces of Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut and Fforde’s avowed literary hero, Lewis Carroll. Crime fiction: Jasper Fforde’s ‘Early Riser’ is not your average mystery novel 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Vonnegut describes outlining “my famous Dresden book” over and over, revisiting his memories again and again and always finding them useless. Rereading Slaughterhouse-Five on its 50th anniversary 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z “Langmuir was absolutely indifferent to the uses that might be made of the truths he dug out of the rock,” Vonnegut told Musil. 100 years after his birth, Kurt Vonnegut is more relevant than ever to science 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Vonnegut, who was born in Indianapolis, died 2007 at age 84. Indianapolis’ Kurt Vonnegut museum seeks $1.5M for new home 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Vonnegut was an Army scout captured in the Battle of the Bulge and shoved into a slaughterhouse meat locker in Dresden, before cathedrals and people were incinerated one night in mid-February 1945. Reading ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ in Baghdad: What Vonnegut taught me about what comes after war 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Kurt Vonnegut also said, “We are what we pretend to be, and we have to be careful who we pretend to be.” Conservative Tom Nichols on leaving the GOP: “The Republican Party is not capable of healing it... 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z That’s why Vonnegut repeats, again and again, the phrase “so it goes,” which the alien Tralfamadorians use as their response to death. Rereading Slaughterhouse-Five on its 50th anniversary 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z For many of the same fears that materialize in Vonnegut’s stories, Jasanoff believes “scientists should not be defining the ethical horizons of what we do.” 100 years after his birth, Kurt Vonnegut is more relevant than ever to science 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Months later, Vonnegut writes it was “a great source of delight to be able to announce” he was alive. Scrapbook of Vonnegut letters, keepsakes, up for auction 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z So Vonnegut turned to time travel and a race of aliens called Tralfamadorians to explain trauma and violence, and how it is somehow both unspeakable and banal for civilization to perpetuate. Reading ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ in Baghdad: What Vonnegut taught me about what comes after war 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z They played a humorous video of author Kurt Vonnegut describing narrative arcs that appeal to people. 'Team Oil': ex-oil worker seeks to educate legislators on climate change 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut A good pull of the rug from under our presumptions that we are the pinnacle of evolution. Robin Ince's top 10 books about the human condition 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z “I’m grateful I have examples like those that Vonnegut and others provide us.” 100 years after his birth, Kurt Vonnegut is more relevant than ever to science 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z He told officials that Vonnegut left at 10 a.m. Coast Guard searching for missing boater off Florida Keys 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z “Vonnegut was trying to incorporate those postwar experiences of PTSD,” said Julia Whitehead, the founder and chief executive of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library in Indianapolis. Reading ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ in Baghdad: What Vonnegut taught me about what comes after war 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Here my thoughts turn most immediately to satirical writing – to dark political comedies like Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 perhaps, or Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five. In these dark times, embracing laughter is an ethical choice | Charlotte Wood 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z Vonnegut saw the worst excesses of humanity during the bombing of Dresden, but then spent the rest of his life writing with a mixture of exasperation and hope about the foibles of humanity. Robin Ince's top 10 books about the human condition 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z The older barn originally belonged to a house down the road that, later, the writer Kurt Vonnegut and his wife, the photographer Jill Krementz, bought. A Hamptons Question: Do Good Hedgerows Make Good Neighbors? 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Crews from the Coast Guard are searching for Vonnegut. Coast Guard searching for missing boater off Florida Keys 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z She placed a leather-bound copy of “Sirens of Titan” signed by Vonnegut into a box for me to collect later. Reading ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ in Baghdad: What Vonnegut taught me about what comes after war 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Of course they were all white men: Vonnegut, Barth, Pynchon, and so on. Oreo: Marlon James on a crazy, sexy, forgotten gem of black literature 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z I’d read the famous ones like Kurt Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury, but I was also addicted to the hard stuff: there was one magazine called Astounding and another one was Amazing. Salman Rushdie: ‘I like black comedy in dark times’ 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Kurt Vonnegut wrote a comic novel about the firebombing of Dresden. Has fiction lost its sense of humour? 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Writers such as Anthony Burgess, Kurt Vonnegut and Ayn Rand were in his debt, as are more recent novels by Kazuo Ishiguro and Octavia Butler that take up his inquiry into utopia and its shortcomings. An eerie dystopian prophecy by a disillusioned Bolshevik 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Vonnegut tried for years to write a true story about it. Reading ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ in Baghdad: What Vonnegut taught me about what comes after war 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Roth’s seniors – Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal and Kurt Vonnegut – had already shown the way in their feisty takeover of the American novel. ‘I did the best I could with what I had…’: writers on the Philip Roth they knew 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z “He knows everything,” novelist Kurt Vonnegut once wrote of Wolfe. Remembering author Tom Wolfe, ‘a magician’ with words 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Death Before Cocktails An L.A. writer holds a wake in Palm Springs for her famous twin sister in Laureen Vonnegut's new dark comedy. The week ahead in L.A. theater, April 15-22: 'Native Son,' Laurie Anderson and more One of his prized autographs came from prolific writer Kurt Vonnegut, who not only enclosed his signature, but also drew his caricature to go along with it. Iowa man has collected more than 15K entertainment artifacts 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z “We are what we pretend to be,” said the late novelist Kurt Vonnegut. How the far right has perfected the art of deniable racism | Gary Younge 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z She and her husband hobnobbed with writers like Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut, a family friend who set part of his novel, “Mother Night,” at the Bethune Street townhouse. A West Village Warrior Fights, and Writes, On 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Then read Kurt Vonnegut's short story, "Welcome to the Monkey House". Opinion | The Conspiracy of Inaction on Sexual Abuse and Harassment 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z “Midlife” combines acuity, frankness and drollery in a style that melds Aristotle with Kurt Vonnegut. The consolations of philosophy for the middle-aged 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Many of the great fiction writers of the mid-20th century, including Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut and James Jones, served in the war and wrote classic novels based on their experiences. The Recent Wave of WWII Memoirs May Also Be the Last 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Ballard, Kurt Vonnegut and others, was in the vanguard of writers who invoked science fiction to fathom a modern world that humans for the first time were empowered to destroy. The week’s passages 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z “Well,” he said, “his brother, Bernie Vonnegut, was prominent in our field.” Colorado’s Front Range is perfect petri dish for hail 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z As Vonnegut says, we should be continually jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. So you want to be a writer? Essential tips for aspiring novelists 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z “Prompted by patriotic American motives, I protest against nation participating in European war,” read a telegram from Kurt Vonnegut of Indianapolis, whose son wrote the antiwar novel “Slaughterhouse Five” a generation later. As a vote on entering World War I approached, the only woman in Congress faced an agonizing choice 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z In the mirror, Kurt Vonnegut stares back — bad mustache, worse hair. I asked for the honeymoon suite. We got chemo bay No. 8 in the cancer annex 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z An exhibit of Vonnegut artwork is on display at the museum through May 6. Chicago veterans museum acquires Kurt Vonnegut art prints 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Em Bohlka was a poet with a master’s degree in literature and a penchant for quoting Kurt Vonnegut. Victims of the Oakland warehouse fire: Who they were 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z A fan of George Orwell and Kurt Vonnegut, he began writing fiction, and published his debut novel, “The White Boy Shuffle,” about a black surfer in Los Angeles, in 1996. Paul Beatty Wins Man Booker Prize With ‘The Sellout’ 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Next year, the neighborhood will also see the opening of a new location for the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, a museum honoring the late writer and Indy native. Home design brand West Elm plans hotels in 5 cities 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z I got a Kurt Vonnegut badge and a Shel Silverstein badge. 'Our temples of culture': readers reflect on their favorite libraries across the US 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Suggested reading:Kurt Vonnegut, "Player Piano."I'm a long-time computer jock, designed and wrote educable specialized neural network... Self-Driving Cars Gain Powerful Ally: The Government 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z The writer Kurt Vonnegut was an avid Ping-Pong player. Millennials making pingpong popular in Indiana 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z Libyan Sugar opens with an excerpt from Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, in which the narrator discusses the moral obligations of representing war with the wife of his friend. 'War Stories Shouldn’t Be Easy, True War Stories Never Are' 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z He quoted the poetry of William Butler Yeats and the novels of his fellow Hoosier, Kurt Vonnegut. John Brademas, Indiana congressman and House whip in 1970s, dies at 89 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Robert Creeley, the iconic American poet, got his start in self-publishing but was eventually picked up by Scribner’s, the firm known for publishing authors such as Ernest Hemingway and Kurt Vonnegut. How an Obsolete Copy Machine Started a Revolution Hemingway and Dos Passos in the first world war; Mailer, Heller, Jones and Vonnegut in the second world war; O’Brien, Herr and Marlantes in Vietnam: they’re all heritors of Bierce. Endless war: Trump and the fantasy of cost-free conflict 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library displays his typewriter, rejection letters and other intriguing mementos. Best of Indianapolis: Neighborhoods, restaurants, art 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z My goodness, I have two post-graduate degrees yet it appears I am a moron by definition, as are David Letterman, Kurt Vonnegut and, ahem, Will Shortz. The Most Important Primary Is ... Wait, Indiana? 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Whitehead says, “we hope Vonnegut fans everywhere will pitch in for Kurt.” Vonnegut library seeks $775K from fans for move to new space 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z And Denby’s myopic view of “reading seriously” is a frustrating one: it should be obvious that holding a phone rather than a battered copy of Vonnegut doesn’t mean you lack the “reading obsession”. Teen readers aren't in crisis, they're just making their own rules 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Perhaps she should have written her many rainmaking scenes in Vonnegut’s style, with short, quick chapters, each ending with a carefully crafted punchline. How H.G. Wells missed writing a book that became a Vonnegut classic 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Indianapolis is dotted with tributes to one of its most famous sons, the late counterculture writer Kurt Vonnegut. Best of Indianapolis: Neighborhoods, restaurants, art 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse Five,” meanwhile, re-framed his own vivid first-hand experience into a science fiction context — a double-edged sword that allows unthinkable thoughts to be considered, but only because it imagines them in an elsewhere. Let’s get the old gang back together: The big lie America never grapples with, as we consider more war post-Paris 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z Vonnegut's dark, twisted World War II parable is read by Franco, the famously prolific actor, author and filmmaker. Holiday books: Grab a great listen with these audiobooks 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z The book weaves through the phases of Pilgrim’s life, displaying his and Vonnegut’s heartbreaking experiences as an American prisoner of war. 25 Books That Will Blow Your Mind, According to Amazon 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Vonnegut’s style is not as simple as Vonnegut made it look. How H.G. Wells missed writing a book that became a Vonnegut classic 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z A mural of Vonnegut towers four stories high over a parking lot on Massachusetts Avenue, but the street has many other attractions worth seeing. Best of Indianapolis: Neighborhoods, restaurants, art 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z As Kurt Vonnegut argued in a now-famous lecture, stories have emotional shapes. Computers can get an ‘emotional feel’ for fiction 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z In addition to the mature thematic material, the magazine has at times published writing by such notables as Joseph Heller, Ian Fleming, Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut. Playboy to stop publishing photos of nude women 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z The temple, designed by the noted early 20th century Indianapolis architecture firm of Vonnegut, Bohn and Mueller, looks solid from the outside. Indianapolis’ oldest temple is historic but empty 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, TV soon killed the market for short stories, and Vonnegut’s early novels sold so poorly that he took a job selling Saabs. How H.G. Wells missed writing a book that became a Vonnegut classic 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Music, says Davis, referencing the writer Kurt Vonnegut, is the only thing needed to prove that God exists. From Belafonte to the blues: Guy Davis’ uncommon life 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Vonnegut was speaking theoretically from his experience as an author, but what if we could train computers to tap into that emotion and—in the process—produce real data? Computers can get an ‘emotional feel’ for fiction 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Now, the thing about this charming piece by Kurt Vonnegut is that it wasn’t written by Kurt Vonnegut. Alan Alda to Grads: Everything in Life Takes Time 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Sometimes it has manifested itself in science fiction and other narrative lore, such as Kurt Vonnegut’s dystopian 1952 novel “Player Piano” or the 16th-century legend of the Golem of Prague. The robots aren’t threatening your job 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z What linked those two seemingly unrelated movements in Vonnegut’s nimble mind? How H.G. Wells missed writing a book that became a Vonnegut classic 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Gently mocked by native author Kurt Vonnegut but central to its identity, being a Hoosier just means being nice. In conservative Indiana, bemusement amid boycott threats over religious freedom law 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z Because by 10th grade, it was Vonnegut and Dostoyevsky I was obsessed with. The Author of If I Stay on Why Kids Crave Young Adult Books With Dark Themes 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z People are still sending around that talk, saying it was written by Kurt Vonnegut. Alan Alda to Grads: Everything in Life Takes Time 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Indianapolis already sports a mural of Vonnegut on Massachusetts Avenue. Councilman proposes naming Indianapolis street for Vonnegut 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z They also inspired the U.S. military, which hoped to use rain as a weapon of war — creating floods and tidal waves to drown our enemies — which appalled both Vonnegut brothers. How H.G. Wells missed writing a book that became a Vonnegut classic 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z “He also said that life is no way to treat an animal. And I think I know what Kurt Vonnegut would have said about all this, and not in an uncaring way: ‘So it goes’. Ralph Steadman on Charlie Hebdo, the Right to Offend and Changing the World Up seventh for the Gray Lady: Kurt Vonnegut, sometimes referred to as a modern Mark Twain. When It Comes to Contributors, Scientific American Certainly Can Icon 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z “Vonnegut smoked a cigarette in my doorway. Spalding Gray came in with his kids on the weekends.” Fighting to Preserve Sag Harbor’s Literary Flavor 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z The street cuts between the Statehouse and state government offices and is dotted with parking lots and a few businesses, including the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. Councilman proposes naming Indianapolis street for Vonnegut 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z In 1947, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a former American soldier and prisoner of war, and a future best-selling novelist, proposed a bizarre thesis topic for his degree in cultural anthropology at the University of Chicago. How H.G. Wells missed writing a book that became a Vonnegut classic 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z “You were close to Kurt Vonnegut – didn’t he once say that the only proof he required for the existence of God was music?” Ralph Steadman on Charlie Hebdo, the Right to Offend and Changing the World As Kurt Vonnegut famously wrote, “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.“ How Do We Find Meaning in Life? 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Recently, while reading Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut, I began to wonder whether The Law of the Few was even an original concept. SAPVoice: Gladwell vs Vonnegut on Change Specialists 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z The Waltons tried to sell the house privately to several foundations and universities, including the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, but there were no takers. Vonnegut’s boyhood home for sale in Indianapolis 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z His professors rejected the idea, and soon Vonnegut dropped out. How H.G. Wells missed writing a book that became a Vonnegut classic 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Promoting free speech was important to Kurt Vonnegut, whose “Slaughterhouse-Five,” considered his masterpiece, is one of the most roughed-up books in history. Performance artist makes statement on banned books 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z One of them was Kurt Vonnegut, who wrote about the horrors of war in his novel, “Slaughterhouse Five,” after the war. Lost WWII medals returned to Ohio soldier’s family 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z The essay became the subject of a fake e-mail chain claiming to be a MIT commencement address given by counterculture hero Vonnegut. How We All Got It Wrong: Women Were Behind These 7 Famously Inspiring Quotes 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Adding to the sense that the meal is a performance, every menu gets a title from the chef — Mr. Sorter called his “Vonnegut,” he explained, because both he and the famous author hail from Indiana. Dinner Lab Brings the Wisdom of Crowds to Haute Cuisine 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z Strand is a dogged researcher and a lucid writer, but potential readers should know that her book is not a full-blown biography of Vonnegut — or his brother, for that matter. How H.G. Wells missed writing a book that became a Vonnegut classic 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Dalton, an editor of children’s magazines, became the first window-sitter in the Vonnegut library. Performance artist makes statement on banned books 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z And so it goes, as Kurt Vonnegut might say. You Think Financing U.S. Health Care Is Bizarre? Check Out 340B Drug Pricing 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z This is how seven famously inspiring quotes came to be attributed to Edison and the likes of Emerson, Twain, Voltaire, Vonnegut and Kafka when these were originally conceived, or written by, women: How We All Got It Wrong: Women Were Behind These 7 Famously Inspiring Quotes 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Writers from both sides of the war described the carnage they witnessed, evolving novels as a vehicle for anti-war speech with styles later echoed by World War II veteran Kurt Vonnegut. World War I, the 1920s and Modern Cool 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Obviously, the book is aimed at Vonnegut’s many fans — and they might enjoy it, but only if they’re willing to wade through an awful lot about Bernard’s cloud-seeding experiments. How H.G. Wells missed writing a book that became a Vonnegut classic 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Slight and dark-haired, he was a dreamer and a planner who loved Kurt Vonnegut and the Beatles. Death in the Peace Corps: A Trail of Medical Missteps 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z “Galápagos,” based on the Kurt Vonnegut novel, at the Parrish Art Museum, 279 Montauk Highway, July 21, 23 and 24 at 6 p.m. and July 25 at 4 p.m. ‘Galápagos’ to Have Premiere at the Parrish Art Museum 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Kurt Vonnegut wondered aloud forty years ago at a commencement speech. Sharing The Spotlight: Why Good Community-Builders Will Inherit The Earth 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z In the final few months of his life, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a beautiful essay explaining why he would not use email. 'Is email dead already?' – my latest moment of modernity vertigo 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Wells never wrote that novel, but Vonnegut did. How H.G. Wells missed writing a book that became a Vonnegut classic 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Together the Minister of the Interior and the thoughtful boy who would later give him that title had read a thrilling book by an American with a German name—Vonnegut! Zadie Smith: “Moonlit Landscape with Bridge.” 2014-02-03T05:00:00Z This month it will present the world premiere of an adaptation of the 1985 Kurt Vonnegut novel “Galápagos.” ‘Galápagos’ to Have Premiere at the Parrish Art Museum 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z In the late 1940s, Vonnegut observed how General Electric was replacing human machinists with computer-operated milling machines to cut rotors for jet engines. Edward Snowden may be the last of the human spies 2013-06-29T11:00:00Z Along with Kurt Vonnegut, one of the few authors who I made sure I read every single word of his oeuvre. 'A generation of book fans has been robbed' 2013-06-10T11:44:08Z Semi-colons can provoke strong reactions; the novelist Kurt Vonnegut Jr advised people to avoid them altogether. The people who hate other people's bad grammar 2013-05-13T08:58:14Z Maybe instead of the usual guff like "Unite the World" and "All in One Rhythm", the 2022 World Cup slogan could just be "By Kurt Vonnegut". General Greg Dyke and the winter of Qatar 2022. By Kurt Vonnegut 2013-03-22T19:45:01Z Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.” Iraqi professor: “Life became like a slow film in which everyone dies” 2013-03-18T23:59:00Z This passing of duties from humans to bots led Vonnegut to imagine a world where human chores of all manners would cease being the labour of men and become strictly the work of machines. Edward Snowden may be the last of the human spies 2013-06-29T11:00:00Z Dustin Hoffman, Kurt Vonnegut, David Mamet and a group of violinists from the Metropolitan Opera were regulars. Marty Reisman, 82, Wizard of Table Tennis, Dies 2012-12-08T03:23:35Z Somebody decided to post it on the Internet as a Vonnegut speech at MIT in 1997, and the rest is history. Best commencement speeches never given 2012-05-19T09:00:00Z Other artists, working in everything from spray paint to mosaic, chose abstract themes, nature scenes, and portraits of local luminaries, including a 38-foot high painting of Indiana native Kurt Vonnegut by local muralist Pamela Bliss. The Fifth Down: Everything Indy: For the Super Bowl, Art Goes Very Public 2012-02-01T21:31:01Z Wonder how many of Indy’s Super Bowl tourists take advantage of the stacked calendar of Super Bowl Week Events at the Official Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. Castrodale: Super overhype? Here's how to deal 2012-01-24T22:38:36Z One implication of this phenomenon: "We should all heed Kurt Vonnegut's advice," Wilson says: "'We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.'" Science's "most beautiful theories" 2012-01-15T05:14:46Z In August, The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in Indianapolis offered up to 150 copies of "Slaughterhouse-Five" to any Republic students who wanted to read it. Missouri local school board ends ban on Slaughterhouse Five 2011-09-20T04:46:39Z So, at one time or another, Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller and Bruce Jay Friedman — to name only four mentioned by Ms. Becker — were seated at Table 4. City Room: More Than Memories to Keep Spirit of Elaine's Alive 2011-08-15T20:09:16Z In Slapstick, a novel by the American writer Kurt Vonnegut published in 1976, Wilbur Swain runs for president, on the slogan: "Lonesome no more". Let's dispel this gloom about living longer and make life better for the old 2011-08-06T23:09:00Z The watering hole on Manhattan’s Upper East Side was patronized by writers and celebrities including Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer and Jackie Onassis. Memorabilia from NYC restaurant Elaine?s, patronized by Jackie O and Kurt Vonnegut, for sale 2011-08-09T20:16:51Z "I remember once reading in a Kurt Vonnegut book the question 'How did you get here?'" he continues. Poor Goldman CEO is just "misunderstood" 2011-07-28T17:01:00Z I especially liked the Vonnegut book review and am looking forward to...” Radioactive Strontium Found in Hilo, Hawaii Milk 2011-04-27T12:45:02Z Bypassing Vonnegut, he clicks over to YouTube, meaning that tomorrow he will enter his senior year of high school hoping to see an improvement in his grades, but without having completed his only summer homework. Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction 2010-11-21T12:40:00Z “All my jokes are Indianapolis,” Mr. Vonnegut said at a speech here in 1986. Indianapolis Opens Museum to Honor Its Literary Native Son 2010-11-20T02:40:00Z Ms. Dusky, a longtime magazine writer, recognized the reference to the Vonnegut book. Big City: Language of Adoption Often Lacking for Those Involved 2010-08-07T02:20:00Z Some of the best literary accounts on the site, though, come from dead writers – Pepys, Vonnegut and Chandler among them. Top 50 Twitter feeds for the arts 2010-04-17T23:07:00Z Now she is reading Kurt Vonnegut in her English class, studying debate and political cartoons in history, and running track for the Bullis Bulldogs. U.S. prep schools push to recruit foreign students 2010-03-30T04:00:00Z If Vishal’s going to be an independent filmmaker, he’s got to read Vonnegut. Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction 2010-11-21T12:40:00Z The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, run as a nonprofit, resides in the historic Emelie Building downtown. Indianapolis Opens Museum to Honor Its Literary Native Son 2010-11-20T02:40:00Z Mr. Vonnegut, who died in 2007 at the age of 84, was born here to a prominent family of architects. Indianapolis Opens Museum to Honor Its Literary Native Son 2010-11-20T02:40:00Z After the war, Mr. Vonnegut married and worked as a reporter in Chicago before moving his family to Schenectady, N.Y., and then to Cape Cod, in Massachusetts. Indianapolis Opens Museum to Honor Its Literary Native Son 2010-11-20T02:40:00Z In 1970, Mr. Vonnegut moved to New York, later remarrying there. Indianapolis Opens Museum to Honor Its Literary Native Son 2010-11-20T02:40:00Z Although he never lived in Indianapolis again, Mr. Vonnegut did visit over the years. Indianapolis Opens Museum to Honor Its Literary Native Son 2010-11-20T02:40:00Z Several of its rooms were donated by a local law firm — a beneficence that was not always recognized by Mr. Vonnegut during his lifetime. Indianapolis Opens Museum to Honor Its Literary Native Son 2010-11-20T02:40:00Z “The Vonnegut name resonates with so many different people,” said Chris Gahl, a spokesman for the Indianapolis Convention and Visitors Association. Indianapolis Opens Museum to Honor Its Literary Native Son 2010-11-20T02:40:00Z “Knowing my father, it was more just to keep the potential and the mystery,” said Mark Vonnegut, the author’s son, musing about the decision not to open it. Indianapolis Opens Museum to Honor Its Literary Native Son 2010-11-20T02:40:00Z Mark Vonnegut is on the library’s board, but Mr. Vonnegut’s widow, the author and photographer Jill Krementz, told the board she did not want to be involved. Indianapolis Opens Museum to Honor Its Literary Native Son 2010-11-20T02:40:00Z Mr. Vonnegut remained “the kid from Indianapolis,” his son said. Indianapolis Opens Museum to Honor Its Literary Native Son 2010-11-20T02:40:00Z They include the author’s typewriter and an unopened box of his Pall Mall cigarettes, alongside a painting devoted to the Tralfamadorians, the green aliens Mr. Vonnegut wrote about in books including “Slaughterhouse-Five.” Indianapolis Opens Museum to Honor Its Literary Native Son 2010-11-20T02:40:00Z |
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