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• Paralysis From Fear And A Dancing Animal

  
  Murderous Musings — Authority: 125
  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: 731
  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: 735
  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: 123
  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: 119
  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: 126
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• 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: 130
  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: 465
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Top 25 Favorite Writers

  
  Celsius1414 — Authority: 128
  Much like for my favorite movies , here is a list of my Top 25 favorite writers. Vladimir Nabokov Ray Bradbury JRR Tolkien Kurt Vonnegut Douglas Adams Mark Twain The rest in alphabetical order by last name: Robert Benchley Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Albert Camus Raymond Chandler Umberto Eco ...
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• as soft-spoken executrix

  
  detritus. — Authority: 131
  The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it. — Kurt Vonnegut in Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction reviewed this morning by Dave Eggers in the New York Times Book Review.
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• conversations I would have with my younger self

  
  Stephanie Klein's Greek Tragedy — Authority: 126
  What would I say, if I could, to my younger self?  You know, if we went for drinks at a Mexican joint, and I began a sentence with, "Okay, there’s something you should know…" what would follow?  It’s easy to tent a blanket of "Don’t take life so seriously" on it, but that’s like telling someone to "just ...
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• Look at the Birdie by Kurt Vonnegut

  
  books, the universe, and everything — Authority: 121
  Look at the Birdie is the second posthumous collection by Kurt Vonnegut. The first was Armageddon in Retrospect, which came out last year. I thought this collection was a lot better than Armageddon in Retrospect. Armageddon had some good stories... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
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• Have I Got a Car for You?

  
  Wanderlust — Authority: 443
  by Kurt Vonnegut A few years back, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a story outlining his theory behind why he was never awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature.  The answer: his hatred for Saabs.  Excerpt below, more here . I used to be the owner and manager of an automobile dealership in West Barnstable, Massachusetts, ...
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• Kurt Vonnegut: “A Saab Could Drag A VW At A Stoplight” [Car Art]

  
  Jalopnik — Authority: 733
  Of course you all know that Kurt Vonnegut used to manage a Saab dealership in Massachusetts before he became a famous writer. But any day is a good day to relive his fun tale. A tale which may have cost him the Nobel Prize in Literature! In a short piece titled Have I Got a Car for You! , published in November ...
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• Fox News "24/7 Anti-Obama Oppositon" & "Becks Language Scary "

  
  Gord's Poetry Factory — Authority: 127
  Anyway Kudos to "Liberal Viewer" at Youtube for an excellent job analyzing and deconstructing Faux Fox News. President Obama has finally taken a stand against Fox News. Fox News claims to a non-partisan "Fair and Balanced" news network. If so they should prove it. Instead they unfair and unbalanced as they are the ...
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• The #1 surveillance society in the world, the UK, focuses on "domestic extremism"

  
  And, yes, I DO take it personally — Authority: 134
  make no mistake... these same tactics are being used in the u.s., its just that the u.s. doesnt have as deep a tradition of investigative journalism that is willing to ferret them out... all emphases added... Police are gathering the personal details of thousands of activists who attend political meetings and ...
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• "How embarrassing to be human."

  
  Daily Cow — Authority: 503
  “How embarrassing to be human.” - Kurt Vonnegut
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• Friday finds

  
  STEVENHARTSITE — Authority: 426
  Want to give this year’s Halloween celebration a Lovecraftian flavor? Then Propnomicon is the site for you. Now here’s somebody who really does it up brown for Halloween. The Martian invasion alone must have required a second mortgage. A Chicago boy, Roger Ebert, writes about another Chicago boy , James ...
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• Top 10 [Unconventional] Leadership Books

  
  Samuel Bacharach Blog — Authority: 125
  Since I write and teach about leadership I’m often asked, “What are the best leadership books?” It’s always a hard question. First, there are so many great books on the subject and second, not everyone has the same tastes. While one person might like The Art of Woo they may yawn over a reputable academic ...
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