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• Saab, born from jets, crashes and burns

  
  Automotive Buzz from AutoAnything — Authority: 125
  Holy Swedish meatballs, Bätman. The word on the street is that GM’s Sweden-rooted marque, Saab, is on the verge of being sent to the proverbial scrap yard. Even though the Man of Steel was able to survive the scrap yard in Superman III , Saab doesn’t have the advantage of being born on Krypton—they’re just ...
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• Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter Home

  
  jeffmilner.com — Authority: 121
  As a private with the 106th Infantry Division, Kurt Vonnegut, along with five other battalion scouts, wandered behind enemy lines for several days during the Rhineland Campaign and became cut off from their battalion. They were captured by Wehrmacht troops on December 14, 1944 and imprisoned in Dresden, Germany. ...
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• Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 26: NaNoWriMo

  
  Writing Excuses — Authority: 449
  Dan, Howard, and Jordo descended into the basement at Dragon’s Keep where members of the local NaNoWriMo chapter were attempting to bolster their word-counts for the day. We talked to them about National Novel Writing Month, and about the things that were getting them stuck. Good times! Writing Prompt: Kill one of ...
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• Vonnegut after Dresden

  
  otrops — Authority: 100
  The superb Letters of Note has a remarkable letter written by a young Kurt Vonnegut to his family shortly after the bombing of Dresden. On about February 14th the Americans came over, followed by the R.A.F. their combined labors killed 250,000 people in twenty-four hours and destroyed all of Dresden — possibly ...
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• Kurt Vonnegut in Slaughterhouse Five

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 587
  On the fascinating site Letters of Note : In December of 1944, whilst behind enemy lines during the Rhineland Campaign, Private Kurt Vonnegut was captured by Wehrmacht troops and subsequently became a prisoner of war. A month later, Vonnegut and his fellow POWs reached a Dresden work camp where they were imprisoned ...
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• LETTERS FROM KURT

  
  YeLPar — Authority: 132
  One of my fav authors is Kurt Vonnegu t and one of his best books is Slaughterhouse Five . Ive just stumbled across this letter Kurt wrote back home after being freed as a POW in WW2. It makes for a good epilogue to the book. continued here
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• Reading Other People’s Letters and Being Fascinated

  
  General Lordisimo's Apocalypse — Authority: 124
  I have for a long time been fascinated by letter writing and reading (and personally wish I did a better job at writing more of them myself).  I remember finding a number of various letter, written by people I never knew (nor ever will) in my grandmother’s basement some years back.  They were amazing! As such, ...
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• Oh, So That Is God’s Work

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 134
  Todays New York Times has an encouraging article about the things that Goldman Sachs is doing to cleanse its image as a greedy and destructive force in the U.S. economy and society. Apparently Warren Buffett is teach their senior team a bit of humility, or at least how to feign it. This is all old news, but I ...
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• Vote on the Contrast Podcast Festive 50 Shortlist!

  
  Muruch — Authority: 129
  Contrast Podcast recently asked music bloggers like myself to submit our favorite 50 songs of the year for their annual “Festive 50″ podcast. Our selections were then compiled into a shortlist and now we’ve been asked to recruit votes to narrow it down. For the curious, I’ve bolded the 10 songs I personally ...
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• Vonnegut’s Letter

  
  spincitydotorg — Authority: 432
  Kurt Vonnegut’s letter to his family after leaving Dresden and Slaughterhouse Five. I’m told that you were probably never informed that I was anything other than “missing in action.” Chances are that you also failed to receive any of the letters I wrote from Germany. That leaves me a lot of explaining to ...
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• The Tattlesnake – Palin: the GOPs Political Poison Pill Edition

  
  BartBlog — Authority: 477
  “Her agenda was not necessarily to show me in the best light.”– Sarah Palin to Oprah Winfrey, complaining about Katie Couric’s 2008 interview that revealed her to be an uninformed pageant sash, as quoted at NBC’s Today Show website, Nov. 16, 2009.As this quote shows, Sarah Palin still has no idea what the ...
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• Paralysis From Fear And A Dancing Animal

  
  Murderous Musings — Authority: 127
  By Pat Browning Rabbi Ilene Schneider got my attention with her Nov. 11th DorothyL post on writer’s block. I think it describes perfectly what some mistakenly call “writer’s block” when they really mean “fear” – fear of failure, even fear of success. Ilene really is a rabbi and she really has ...
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• Who Is ... @Combos?

  
  Asylum — Authority: 727
  Filed under: The Noble Prize Few things could be more entertaining or stoner-rific than tweeting as an entity like Combos snacks. One lucky guy gets to do just that. Asylums friend Mark works to spread the gospel of cheese-injected guilty pleasures via the @Combos Twitter ... Read more   Permalink  |  ...
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• Writers on writing

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 751
  In How to Write a Great Novel authors such as Edwidge Danticat, Hilary Mantel, Orhan Pamuk, Junot Díaz and Margaret Atwood speak about their writing process. If you want your thoughts on writing in a longer format, you could do a lot worse than The New York Times Writers on Writing series, which features short ...
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• Vonnegut and Bogle Veterans Day Post From Last Year

  
  A Long Tough Blog — Authority: 125
  Vonnegut and Bogle, here. And a special salute to my father, Donald. Thanks, pops.
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• Adding fuel to the fire

  
  Author! Author! — Authority: 121
  I’m only just crawling out from under my great big deadline, campers (ah, the romance of a working writer’s life!), so I should probably get some serious sleep before I start professing to give advice again. At least on anything important like querying, submission, craft… Or pretty much anything else we ...
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• Notes For November 10th, 2009

  
  The INTERNET WRITING WORKSHOP — Authority: 127
  This Day In Writing History On November 10th, 1973, copies of Slaughterhouse-Five , (1969) the classic novel by legendary writer Kurt Vonnegut, were burned by administrators of a high school in Drake, North Dakota, as per the orders of the Drake School Board. An English teacher at the high school had assigned ...
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• Seeing a little something of life – NYT review of Vonnegut’s ‘Look at the Birdie’

  
  piran caf — Authority: 123
  Nice review last week in the NY Times of Look at the Birdie, a collection of previously unpublished short fiction by Kurt Vonnegut, which was instantly put on my Xmas gift list — for others, and for me. From Dave Eggars’ intro:It’s been two years since Kurt Vonnegut departed this world, and it’s hard not [...]
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• Reviewed Elsewhere [Vol. 2, #43]

  
  The Englewood Review of Books — Authority: 134
  The NY Review of Books Reviews Three Recent Books on Prisons http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23382 1. With approximately 2.3 million people in prison or jail, the United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world—by far. Our per capita rate is six times greater than Canada’s, eight ...
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• And So It Goes: Rereading Vonnegut, and a quote on semicolons

  
  James Preller's Blog — Authority: 126
  Listen: I’ve been on a little Vonnegut kick lately, and it’s been a happy time. I just reread Breakfast of Champions , and I’m halfway into Cat’s Cradle , after tearing through this one, published posthumously: While I’ve got you — as my father would say — take a gander at this photograph ...
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