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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.
Before Indiana author Kurt Vonnegut was well-known, he was looking for a project to support his growing family. He pitched a board game in the 1950s. It was rejected. Avid Vonnegut fans have heard ...
That’s how Kurt Vonnegut cryptically dealt with apocalyptic events of his life, like that night on Feb. 13, 1945, when the British Royal Air Force firebombed Dresden, Germany. He had been an ...
‘Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time’ Film Review: Even With the Writer’s Involvement, This Doc Feels Vague and Incomplete Decades of on-camera interviews with the “Slaughterhouse Five ...
– Kurt Vonnegut, ‘Slaughterhouse-Five.’ As the Drexel freshmen who read the above passage in “English 103: War Literature” later found out, it wasn’t any ordinary teapot that cost Derby his life.
Now on VOD, Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time details the life of the rare writer deserving a feature documentary treatment. All the way back in 1982, director Robert Weide understood that Vonnegut ...
The Slaughterhouse-Five building inspired the title of what is arguably Kurt Vonnegut’s most famous work. In 1945, he was in its basement when the Allies rained bombs down on Dresden in World War II.
A decade before “Slaughterhouse-Five,” Vonnegut pitched what he believed would be “the third popular checkerboard game” – behind checkers and chess.
‘Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time’ Review: A Portrait of the Fabled Writer Who Turned Darkness Into Play Robert B. Weide spent decades making a documentary about the author of "Slaughterhouse ...
The Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library on Monday promised to donate over 1,000 free copies of Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” to students and teachers in a Florida school district where it ...
Before 'Slaughterhouse-Five,' Kurt Vonnegut made a board game. Now you can play it Jenny Porter Tilley Brian Rosenzweig USA TODAY NETWORK 0:00 ...