| 单词 | Kurt Vonnegut |
| 例句 | 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 Kurt Vonnegut was a very good letter writer, too. By the Book : John Irving: By the Book 2012-06-07T15:45:22Z 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 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 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 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 Kurt Vonnegut wrote a new text, basing the story loosely on that of Pvt. Stravinsky?s Devil, Reignited 2011-06-03T18:21:16Z 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 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 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 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 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 But as Kurt Vonnegut put it, Welcome to the monkey house. Anne Lamott: My secret little prayer 2012-11-13T00:30:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 "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 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 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 Fifty years ago this week, Kurt Vonnegut published the dystopian classic “Slaughterhouse-Five.” Sunday Reading: Dystopian Fiction 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 The answer was a surprising one: Kurt Vonnegut. Craig Ferguson’s “The Late Late Show” Will Be Missed 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Kurt Vonnegut hosted wild parties at his house. Inside Creative Writing’s Premier Talent Factory 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |
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