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Telegraph.co.uk
December 29, 2008
... reunited for the first time since Titanic in this adaptation of a 1961 novel by Richard Yates that Kurt Vonnegut called "The Great Gatsby of my time. ...
Sacramento Bee
December 29, 2008
Ice-9 is a tricky substance Kurt Vonnegut came up with in "Cat's Cradle." Anyone who was around for vinyl probably tried to spin the Beatles' "Revolution 9" ...
The News-Press
December 28, 2008
... mixed with Internet obsessions, and models his books after JD Salinger, Jack Kerouac, John Knowles and
Kurt Vonnegut, with a decidedly
Florida bent. ...
Boston Globe
December 28, 2008
... and finally
Alabama, plus advances against royalties from Boston publisher Sam Lawrence and sometimes an emergency loan from his friend
Kurt Vonnegut, ...
National Post
December 27, 2008
Punching the twin-turbo V6's throttle is like getting caught in Kurt Vonnegut's chronosynclastic infundibulum: One minute you're exiting the west end of ...
Gapers Block
December 26, 2008
New members are always welcome! by Lorraine Hansberry by Norman Maclean by John McNally by Joshua Ferris by Nella Larsen by Kurt Vonnegut by Renee Rosen by ...
YourTango
December 26, 2008
Makes us wonder what would happen if we sent these researchers an anonymous basket full of Kurt Vonnegut books. You know, just for giggles to see what new ...
Hattiesburg American
December 26, 2008
(Kurt) Vonnegut. And, of course, Harry Potter (by
JK Rowling). Do you want to write? I want to major in English and become involved as a book publisher or ...
Newburyport Current
December 25, 2008
We think this is how Kurt Vonnegut got started. And among the older kids, at least the grls, the aforementioned "Twilight" series can't be beat. ...
Boston Herald
December 25, 2008
... Button" recalls "The Picture of Dorian Gray," "The Incredible Shrinking Man" and a "Twilight Zone" episode with a dash of Kurt Vonnegut's sci-fi whimsy. ...
PR-USA.net (press release)
December 24, 2008
... Helen Fielding, WEB Griffin, Spencer Johnson, Arthur Miller, Joyce Carol Oates, Carol Shields, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut, and Stuart Woods. ...
Northwest Arkansas Times
December 24, 2008
Favorite books: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain, "The Autobiography of Santa Claus" by Jeff Guinn, "Slaughterhouse-Five" By Kurt Vonnegut ...
io9
December 24, 2008
Odilo Unverdorben (Time's Arrow by Martin Amis): Amis was inspired by a scene in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five (whose protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, ...
Mankato Free Press
December 23, 2008
In tow were an ice-
fishing pole, novels by
Kurt Vonnegut and Jack Kerouac, a Rod Stewart LP for her mom and a smattering of other packages. ...
Cincinnati CityBeat
December 23, 2008
Richard Yates' classic novel Revolutionary Road , written in 1961, has been hailed by no less than Kurt Vonnegut as "The Great Gatsby of my time. ...
mediabistro.com
December 23, 2008
Would
Hunter S. Thompson or
Kurt Vonnegut or Brett Easton Ellis or Jay McInerney or Alex Garland or Chuck Palahniuk even get book deals if their debut ...
San Diego Reader
December 23, 2008
He wished me "Happy Thanksgiving" just above his closing quote from
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and The Sirens of
Titan, quite as if it explained everything one cared ...
BU Today
December 22, 2008
But Kurt Vonnegut couldn't have even written this one. This is the year, guys. This is the big stuff. The Supreme Court and reproductive rights and the ...
CharlotteObserver.com
December 21, 2008
He's seen the Statler Brothers, who once worked as a backup group for Cash and were described by novelist
Kurt Vonnegut as "America's
Poets," inducted into ...
Tulsa World
December 21, 2008
Two writers have taken the "life in reverse" concept to extreme ends in novels. by Martin Amis (1991) was inspired by a snippet from Kurt Vonnegut's ...
MetroWest Daily News
December 21, 2008
The best book I read this year was "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater," by Kurt Vonnegut. In it, Eliot Rosewater, a man still grappling with his service during ...
Concord Monitor
December 21, 2008
Works by George Saunders, Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegut and a slew of relative unknowns round out the collection. A glance at BANR will hook even the most ...
The Times
December 20, 2008
Among his peers, there has been a steady winnowing: Arthur Miller, George Plimpton, Kurt Vonnegut and, most recently, Norman Mailer. ...
Huffington Post
December 20, 2008
Would
Hunter S. Thompson or
Kurt Vonnegut or Brett Easton Ellis or Jay McInerney or Alex Garland or Chuck Palahniuk even get book deals if their debut ...
PopMatters
December 20, 2008
... Randy "The Ram" Robinson is like Kurt Vonnegut's Billy Pilgrim - unstuck in time and having difficulty dealing with the passage of same. ...
Lake Sun Leader
December 20, 2008
The best book I read this year was "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater," by Kurt Vonnegut. In it, Eliot Rosewater, a man still grappling with his service during ...
New York Times
December 20, 2008
(Apparently, Kate and Leo nuzzling on the cover of the tie-in edition have succeeded where Yates champions like Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Ford failed. ...
AceShowbiz
December 18, 2008
Kurt Vonnegut. I just read Hot Water
music, which is a collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski. I don't normally like his work because it's usually ...
io9
December 18, 2008
Kurt Vonnegut caused some debate among the people I asked about this topic. Was this literary idol ever considered a
science fiction author? ...
History News Network
December 18, 2008
So it goes, the late Kurt Vonnegut might have said. Publishing houses are certainly bleeding and those that haven't yet started to take staff and books out ...
The Phoenix
December 18, 2008
Striking sequences like the blowing to bits of
World War I doughboys in reverse (borrowed perhaps from a passage in
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five) ...
BlackBook Magazine
December 17, 2008
Kurt Vonnegut. I just read Hot Water
music, which is a collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski. I don't normally like his work because it's usually ...
Christian Science Monitor
December 16, 2008
But, she notes, she read books by JD Salinger and
Kurt Vonnegut and understood them. "That is the magic that language has." Motoyuki Shibata, a
Literature ...
The Phoenix
December 16, 2008
Striking sequences like the blowing to bits of
World War I doughboys in reverse (borrowed perhaps from a passage in
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five) ...
Boston Globe
December 16, 2008
Kurt Vonnegut told Klitzman that he got his idea for Ice-9, a crystal that "teaches" water to harden into ice, freezing the world to death, from kuru. ...
Monsters and Critics.com
December 16, 2008
His writing
career led to correspondence with a range of
authors and personalities, including Evelyn Waugh, Muriel Spark,
Kurt Vonnegut, Ralph Richardson, ...
Variety
December 15, 2008
Richard Yates' 1961 novel "Revolutionary Road," which Kurt Vonnegut called "'The Great Gatsby' of my generation," illuminates the tragic spiral of Frank and ...
Sacramento Bee
December 15, 2008
... Joseph Heller ("Catch-22"),
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ("Slaughterhouse-Five"), Jean-Paul Sartre ("The Aftermath of War"), Philip Caputo ("A
rumor of War") and ...
Gapers Block
December 14, 2008
New members are always welcome! by Lorraine Hansberry by Norman Maclean by John McNally by Joshua Ferris by Nella Larsen by Kurt Vonnegut by Renee Rosen by ...
Christian Science Monitor
December 14, 2008
But, she notes, she read books by JD Salinger and
Kurt Vonnegut and understood them. "That is the magic that language has." Motoyuki Shibata, a
Literature ...
