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Writer/filmmaker Robert B. Weide spent decades filming his friend and idol Kurt Vonnegut. The documentary 'Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time' morphed into a study of their long and enduring friendship.
Kurt Vonnegut was disappointed in America. "I'm sorry that America isn't a greater success than it is," he told me in 1991. "Because we're so wealthy and we really could have done almost anything ...
Kurt Vonnegut, the Making of a Writer by Dan Wakefield; Triangle Square/Seven Stories Press, 264 pages ($25.95). Age 12 and up. Novelist, screenwriter and fellow Indiana native Dan Wakefield draws ...
An art installation commemorates the novel Slaughterhouse-Five in the cellar of the former slaughterhouse where author Kurt Vonnegut, then an American prisoner of war, was held in Dresden, Germany ...
Kurt Vonnegut didn’t seem himself. It was not that long before he died. He and I were dining at an Italian restaurant not far from his brownstone in Manhattan. By that time, we had been friends ...
Kurt Vonnegut's 1956 letter pitching GHQ to the Saalfield Publishing Company in Akron, Ohio, from the Kurt Vonnegut collection at the Lilly Library. The game was rejected at the time and didn't ...
In his new biography of the popular writer, Charles J. Shields doesn't depict Kurt Vonnegut as a saint. Far from it. But Shields' thoroughly researched, smoothly written life story does deepen my ...
Watch the teaser for 'Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time,' a documentary nearly 40 years in the making.
Kurt Vonnegut, wrote Jay McInerney in 1991, "is a satirist with a heart, a moralist with a whoopee cushion, a cynic who wants to believe." This feature collects the original New York Times reviews ...
‘Kurt Vonnegut’ Review: Second Person Singular Describing a writer’s experience—from family happiness and tribulation to false starts and literary triumph—as if speaking to the reader.
An art installation commemorates the novel Slaughterhouse-Five in the cellar of the former slaughterhouse where author Kurt Vonnegut, then an American prisoner of war, was held in Dresden, Germany ...
Kurt Vonnegut didn’t seem himself. It was not that long before he died. He and John Krull were dining at an Italian restaurant not far from his brownstone in Manhattan.