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• Collecting Imaginary Authors : Kilgore Trout

  
  Collectors Quest — Authority: 129
  I’ve collected the works of Kurt Vonnegut for many, many years – and usually in multiples when I find them cheaply. I can mail the extra copies to friends and have them treat me oddly until the eventual demise of our relationship. I dated a girl once because she read Galapagos . Vonnegut’s entire bibliography ...
  18 hours ago

• Vonnegut’s Days at Slaughterhouse 5

  
  File 770 — Authority: 136
  Letters of Note has reproduced Kurt Vonnegut’s typewritten letter to the folks back home giving his personal account of several months spent as a POW, when he was shot at by Germans, Americans, British, and Russian aircraft, starved, beaten, marched on foot without food sixty miles, and assigned to forced labor ...
  1 day ago

• Why I Love Vonnegut is also Why I Love Teaching

  
  Teacher, Revised — Authority: 117
  by JESSE SCACCIAThis week my class and I have been talking Vonnegut. My unit plan had called for lessons about letter writing, but for some reason recently I had mentioned Vonnegut in passing. I waited for some sort of response or sign of recognition. Nothing.“Have you people heard of Kurt Vonnegut?”Blank stares. ...
  2 days ago

• Afghanistan, “So It Goes”

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 143
  History has shown that when foreign soldiers try to police their territory Afghanistans tribal, religious, and ethnic identities solidify in resistance. The American troop presence is an irritant... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  2 days ago

• When We Fell In Love: Joshua Mohr

  
  The Nervous Breakdown — Authority: 535
  WWFiL is a new series were starting here at Three Guys, in which the fellas and I ask some of our favorite writers to guest blog a short essay about a book or books, or maybe an author, that made them fall in love in with reading. We wanted to know who they were, and how the book changed them, and who theyve become as ...
  2 days ago

• Two True Freaks! Episode 87 – Harry Potter!!

  
  The Comics Podcast Network — Authority: 145
  In this clock-busting episode, Chris hooks up with THE HARRY POTTER ALLIANCE members Hope Mullinax, Dinah Russell and Andrew Slack! Topics range from Wizard Wrock to social activism and the Harry Potter universe, the Rowling books, the movies, undead sex toys and a whole HOST of other topics! For example, did you ...
  5 days ago

• Kurt Vonnegut: "Look at the Birdie" (book review)

  
  Snob's Music — Authority: 513
  Sometime in my early 20s I became a huge fan of American satirist Kurt Vonnegut.  His dark sense of humour couple with his ability to make keen observations about human nature made for compelling reads, regardless of the genre he chose for any given project.  Breakfast of Champions still ranks among my favorite ...
  6 days ago

• Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

  
  2009 Artist Quote of the Day — Authority: 128
  Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007; pronounced /ˈvɒnɨɡət/) was an American novelist who wrote works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat’s Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of Champions (1973). He was known for his ...
  6 days ago

• Vonnegut to Willeford

  
  John Baker's Blog — Authority: 110
  From a letter written by Kurt Vonnegut to Charles Willeford, dated 13 August 1985: Your publisher asked for a blurb, but I don’t do those anymore having given thousands in the past, and thus having laid myself open to requests for thousands more. However, please count me among your great admirers. You are an ...
  1 week ago

• Saab, born from jets, crashes and burns

  
  Automotive Buzz from AutoAnything — Authority: 122
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• From Kurt Vonneguts "Cold Turkey"

  
  The Ethical Exhibitionist — Authority: 119
  There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president. But, when you stop to think about it, only a nut case would want to be a human being, if he or she had a choice. Such treacherous, untrustworthy, lying and greedy ...
  1 week ago

• Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter Home

  
  jeffmilner.com — Authority: 119
  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. ...
  1 week ago

• Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 26: NaNoWriMo

  
  Writing Excuses — Authority: 450
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Vonnegut after Dresden

  
  otrops — Authority: 107
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kurt Vonnegut in Slaughterhouse Five

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 566
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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
  2 weeks ago

• Reading Other People’s Letters and Being Fascinated

  
  General Lordisimo's Apocalypse — Authority: 122
  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, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Oh, So That Is God’s Work

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 141
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Vonnegut’s Letter

  
  spincitydotorg — Authority: 431
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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