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43. Kurt Vonnegut, Novelist Who Caught The Imagination Of His Age, Is Dead At 84 - I kurt vonnegut, novelist who caught the imagination of his age, is dead at 84. http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/12/arts/web-0412obit.php

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44. Kurt Vonnegut Says This Is The End Of The World : Rolling Stone I m Jeremiah, and I m not talking about God being mad at us, novelist kurt vonnegut says with a http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/11123162/kurt_vonnegut_says_this_is_t

Advertisement Rolling Stone ALL Artist Album Song Try 4 Frees Issues! Vonnegut's Apocalypse He survived being captured by the Nazis and the suicide of his mother to write some of the funniest, darkest novels of our time, but it took George W. Bush to break him DOUGLAS BRINKLEY Posted Aug 09, 2006 1:11 PM Page 1 "I'm Jeremiah, and I'm not talking about God being mad at us," novelist Kurt Vonnegut says with a straight face, gazing out the parlor windows of his Manhattan brownstone. "I'm talking about us killing the planet as a life-support system with gasoline. What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go the school buses. There go the fire engines. The food trucks will come to a halt. This is the end of the world. We've become far too dependent on hydrocarbons, and it's going to suddenly dry up. You talk about the gluttonous Roaring Twenties. That was nothing. We're crazy, going crazy, about petroleum. It's a drug like crack cocaine. Of course, the lunatic fringe of Christianity is welcoming the end of the world as the rapture. So I'm Jeremiah. It's going to have to stop. I'm sorry." For the most part, this sort of apocalyptic attitude is to be expected from Vonnegut, who, after all, in his futuristic novel

45. Salon Books | The Salon Interview: Kurt Vonnegut After entertaining and provoking us with his novels for 50 years, kurt vonnegut says he is retiring from the literature business. http://www.salon.com/books/int/1999/10/08/vonnegut_interview/

Search Archives Contact Us Table Talk ... Columnists Current Wire Stories Click here to read the latest stories from the wires. Also Today For a full list Search Salon Advanced Search Help Recently in Salon Books Reviews "Assuming the Position" by Rick Whitaker A onetime hustler takes a long, hard look at the Life. By Dennis Drabelle Ivory Tower "The Iliad" and other tales of war My momentous monologue turns to dust under the scrutiny of a well-prepared student. By David Alford Biography as screenplay By Charles Kaiser Reviews The stories in this new collection flirt dangerously with agitprop but wind up delivering a cumulative shock. By Jesse Berrett The genius of Danzig By Gavin McNett Complete archives for Books The Salon Interview: KURT V ONNEGUT The author of "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Breakfast of Champions" talks about Capote and Kerouac, Hillary and Rudy, television and, of course, the end of the world. By Frank Houston Oct. 8, 1999 L isten: This is really it. After entertaining and provoking us with his novels for 50 years, Kurt Vonnegut Also today Thin gruel for Vonnegut fans Alan Rudolph's film of "Breakfast of Champions" has no idea what draws fans to Father Kurt: his intelligent anti- intellectualism.

46. Strange Weather Lately by kurt vonnegut. The following is adapted from a Clemens Lecture presented in April for the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut. http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0514-05.htm

Home Newswire About Us Donate ... Archives Featured Views Printer Friendly Version E-Mail This Article Published on May 9, 2003 by In These Times Strange Weather Lately by Kurt Vonnegut 'The following is adapted from a Clemens Lecture presented in April for the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut. First things first: I want it clearly understood that this mustache I’m wearing is my father’s mustache. I should have brought his photograph. My big brother Bernie, now dead, a physical chemist who discovered that silver iodide can sometimes make it snow or rain, he wore it, too. Speaking of weather: Mark Twain said some readers complained that there wasn’t enough weather in his stories. So he wrote some weather, which they could insert wherever they thought it would help some. Mark Twain was said to have shed a tear of gratitude and incredulousness when honored for his writing by Oxford University in England. And I should shed a tear, surely, having been asked at the age of 80, and because of what I myself have written, to speak under the auspices of the sacred Mark Twain House here in Hartford. What other American landmark is as sacred to me as the Mark Twain House? The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln were country boys from Middle America, and both of them made the American people laugh at themselves and appreciate really important, really moral jokes.

47. AlterNet: Kurt Vonnegut Vs. The !*!@ vonnegut In November, kurt vonnegut turned 80. He published his first novel, Player Piano, in 1952 at the age of 29. Since then he has written 13 others, http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15098

48. Kurt Vonnegut Interview With Don Swaim kurt vonnegut is interviewed by Don Swaim of CBS Radio. http://wiredforbooks.org/kurtvonnegut/

Wired For Books home Don Swaim Interviews Audio Interview with Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Kurt Vonnegut Jr., author of Breakfast of Champions Mother Night Player Piano Slapstick Slaughterhouse Five The Sirens of Titan , and Cat's Cradle , talks with Don Swaim in 1981 about profanity, religion, agnosticism, freedom, censorship, living in New York and the dangers of carelessness. Listen to the Kurt Vonnegut Jr. interview with Don Swaim, 1981 (23 min. 10 sec.) Download Free RealPlayer or Search the RealPlayer Archives for a player that will work with older computers (note: version 5.0 or higher is required) For many years most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. Wired for Books is proud to webcast these interviews in RealAudio. Wired for Books home

49. How To Write With Style kurt vonnegut, author of such novels as“SlaughterhouseFive,” “Jailbird” and “Cat’s Cradle” tells you how to put your style and personality into everything http://www.harmonize.com/probe/aids/manual/style.htm

How to write with style By Kurt Vonnegut © 1982 International Paper Co. Reprinted with permission. Newspaper reporters and technical writers are trained to reveal almost nothing about themselves in their writings. This makes them freaks in the world of writers, since almost all of the other ink-stained wretches in that world reveal a lot about themselves to readers. We call these revelations, accidental and intentional, elements of style. These revelations tell us as readers what sort of person it is with whom we are spending time. Does the writer sound ignorant or informed, stupid or bright, crooked or honest, humorless or playful? And on and on. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head. Find a subject you care about. Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style. I am not urging you to write a novel, by the wayalthough I would not be sorry if you wrote one, provided you genuinely cared about something. A petition to the mayor about a pothole in front of your house or a love letter to the girl next door will do. Do not ramble, though.

50. The Paris Review - The Art Of Fiction No. 64 This interview with kurt vonnegut was originally a composite of four interviews done with the author over the past decade. The composite has gone through an http://www.theparisreview.org/viewinterview.php/prmMID/3605

Return to Interview Archive Index KURT VONNEGUT The Art of Fiction No. 64 Interviewed by David Hayman, David Michaelis, George Plimpton, Richard Rhodes Issue 69, Spring 1977 View a manuscript page Reprinted from The Paris Review Interviews, I This interview with Kurt Vonnegut was originally a composite of four interviews done with the author over the past decade. The composite has gone through an extensive working over by the subject himself, who looks upon his own spoken words on the page with considerable misgivings . . . Indeed, what follows can be considered an interview conducted with himself, by himself. Interview , Clancy Sigal's Zone of the Interior , and several discarded cigarette packs. INTERVIEWER You are a veteran of the Second World War? KURT VONNEGUT, JR. INTERVIEWER Why? VONNEGUT INTERVIEWER VONNEGUT The unqualified approval of my community. INTERVIEWER You don't feel that you have that now? VONNEGUT My relatives say that they are glad I'm rich, but that they simply cannot read me. INTERVIEWER You were an infantry battalion scout in the war?

51. Kurt Vonnegut - Telegraph kurt vonnegut, who died on Tuesday aged 84, was a science fiction novelist who emerged as one of America’s greatest literary satirists and a guru of the http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/12/nkurtobit112.xml

52. NOW. Arts & Culture. Kurt Vonnegut | PBS NOW s David Brancaccio interviews literary icon kurt vonnegut about his life and the current state of American democracy. With his classic wit, http://www.pbs.org/now/arts/vonnegut.html

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Movies Restaurants Food Calendar ... Books Counterculture author, icon Kurt Vonnegut Jr. dies at 84 April 12, 2007 Kurt Vonnegut Jr., whose blend of absurdist humor, science fiction, and antiestablishment politics made his novels "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle" campus classics in the '60s and '70s, died last night in Manhattan. He was 84. Mr. Vonnegut had suffered brain injuries after a fall at his Manhattan home weeks ago, his wife, photographer Jill Krementz, told the Associated Press. As much as his books, Mr. Vonnegut's distinctive appearance bushy hair, thick mustache, and sad, quizzical eyes contributed to his iconic status. He had the look, as well as much of the dark outlook, of a latter-day Mark Twain. Mr. Vonnegut's best-known work, "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1969), drew on his experience as a prisoner of war at the end of World War II. Like Mr. Vonnegut, Billy Pilgrim, the novel's hero, survives the fire-bombing of Dresden by Allied forces in February 1945. Billy then travels to another planet, Tralfamadore, where he is able to see all time. "So it goes," the novel's refrain, became a popular catchphrase, initially with protesters of the Vietnam War. Its combination of simplicity, irony, and rue is very much in the Vonnegut vein. "He was sort of like nobody else," Gore Vidal told the Associated Press early this morning. "He was imaginative; our generation of writers didn't go in for imagination very much. Literary realism was the general style. Those of us who came out of the war in the 1940s made it sort of the official American prose, and it was often a bit on the dull side.

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56. Kurt Vonnegut On Telling A Story - Forbes.com Legendary novelist and satirist warns that ink on paper is no way to communicate. http://www.forbes.com/2005/10/19/vonnegut-kurt-writing-literacy-comm05-cx_lr_102

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57. Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast Of Champions Podcast - 92Y Blog - 92nd Street Y - New Y To honor the passing of kurt vonnegut, one of the rare and universally loved literary world greats, we present this special podcast of his very first public http://blog.92y.org/index.php/item/kurt_vonnegut_breakfast_of_champions_podcast/

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58. RIP Kurt Vonnegut: 1922 - 2007 | Table Of Malcontents From Wired.com Last night, at the age of 84, kurt vonnegut died in his Manhattan home from complications related to a brain injury he d sustained in a fall weeks before. http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/04/rip_kurt_vonneg.html

Subscribe Renew Give a Gift Change Address ... WIRED Science Top Stories Magazine Wired Blogs All Wired Main RIP Kurt Vonnegut: 1922 - 2007 By John Brownlee Last night, at the age of 84, Kurt Vonnegut died in his Manhattan home from complications related to a brain injury he'd sustained in a fall weeks before. This is one of those moments where I am overwhelmed by the gravity of other peoples' losses, because I have never read a Vonnegut novel. There is something especially tragic about an author you love dying. Writers are intellects and personalities; their story-soaked brains are the meats on which millions of book lovers anonymously feed. When a writer you love dies, it's personally tragic, because you'll never, ever know the thrill of reading something new. On the other hands, readers can comfort themselves with the knowledge that they loved that writer when he was alive. As such, it's hard not to read Cory Doctorow's startled sentences announcing Vonnegut's death on Boing Boing and, as someone who can not share the experience, feel the personal loss of not having loved Vonnegut while he lived: My first Vonnegut was Breakfast of Champions. I'd never read anything like it. It was a novel that was so easy, everything just happening, one thing after another. The book almost read itself. That was his gift, I think: to tell you things that were hard to hear, without you even noticing it. Like a nurse who can slide a needle into your vein without making you wince.

59. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. — Infoplease.com An iconoclast often compared to Mark Twain, kurt vonnegut found ways to wring humor out of the apparent meaninglessness and absurdity of human existence. http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0154966.html

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