Publisher to release new batch of Vonnegut stories

A posthumous collection of short stories by Kurt Vonnegut will be released this November.

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Critic John Leonard dies at age 69

Literary and cultural critic John Leonard, an early champion of Toni Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and many other authors, and so consumed and informed by books that Kurt Vonnegut once praised him as "the smartest man who ever lived," has died at age 69, his stepdaughter said Thursday.

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Rolling Stones film 'Shine a Light' a Can’t Miss

MoviesI believe that someday well into the future, the fossilized remains of the Rolling Stones will still be playing arenas long after the band members are officially gone. That’s how strong their will is to perform. They’ve been playing together on and off — with a membership change here or there — since the early 1960s. And yet, there’s still something special about watching Mick, Keith, Charlie and the boys take the stage and strut their way through their legendary catalog. “Shine A Light” is proof that no less a chronicler of human events than Martin Scorsese believes the Rolling Stones are still worth investing a lot of time in. The film is a documentary shot at two shows at New York’s Beacon Theater during the group’s “A Bigger Bang” tour in 2006. Someday the celluloid from Scorsese’s movie will decompose, but the Stones will play on. (Paramount Vantage, opens Friday)

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Kurt Vonnegut Tops in Public's Heart

Within the past year, three of the most famous authors to emerge after World War II have died: Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut and William Styron. Their deaths all resulted in front-page stories, lengthy appreciations and ongoing discussions about their place in American letters.

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Vonnegut Speech Instead Becoming Tribute

Kurt Vonnegut's hometown has been celebrating his literary works in a "Year of Vonnegut" and will honor the late author this month at a sold-out event where he had been scheduled to speak.

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Writers Praise Kurt Vonnegut

Like his friend Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut was a hero to baby boomers — though he was raised in an earlier time. The president he mourned was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, not John F. Kennedy. His war was World War II, not Vietnam.

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Influential Author Vonnegut Dies at 84

In books such as "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle," and "Hocus Pocus," Kurt Vonnegut mixed the bitter and funny with a touch of the profound.

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...the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future.

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At once a optimist and a cynic, Vonnegut's love for humanity recognized and embraced each of its shortcomings. With his satirical blend of science fiction and humanism, Vonnegut gifted us with his clever one-liners and pearls of wisdom mixed in with the occasional dirty drawing.

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The beautiful must wear masks, the strong and graceful must be hobbled, the brilliant must have their thoughts electronically interrupted, all by decree of the egalitarian State. Here is the trailer of 2081, based on one of Kurt Vonnegut's best stories.

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Is Walmart channeling Kurt Vonnegut? When Walmart unveiled its new logo last week, there was only one thing we thought of when we saw that logo.

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mark vonnegut's introduction to his father's previously unpublished essays can be read here. (along with rip torn reading "wailing shall be in all streets", FROM said essays.)

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"An Anti-Glacier Book:" A Review of Slaughterhouse-Five

I first heard of Kurt Vonnegut through a friend of mine (the same one who recommended to me His Dark Materials, making him my number one choice for book recommendations) after hearing how the book Mother Night made him cry his eyes out.

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Who's Kurt Vonnegut? (This sounds boring, but it has awesome headline....)

Well upon entering JSTOR I went to "browse". From there you can basically pick a general topic and you get a list of journals with reference to you subject.

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Navigating "Jstor" Databases and Kurt Vonnegut

In order to navigate a JStor database you must first go into the Tampa Online Library, after you have completed that you would type in Jstor into the "find a database" catagory. You would then begin exploring the different database catagories that come up.

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Missing Kurt Vonnegut On A Saturday Nite

I was thinking about Kurt Vonnegut tonite.

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Sadly I have read only 4 of them. However I have no intention of reading the last one.

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Once taking the unlikely premise behind Electric Dreams (which apparently is similar to a Kurt Vonnegut story), no-one could fault director Steven Barron''s attempts at authenticity.

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36 hours: babbles of a hopeful bokonist

Everyone has their clear moment of sanity. When you have decided that you are sane and the rest of the world has gone mad. At that moment you feel a great sense of peace. A clarity. Like your sense of purpose has been revealed.

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Kurt Vonnegut's darkly comic novels became classics of the counterculture, making him a literary idol to students in the 1960s and '70s.

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Ting a Ling you Son of a @!$%#!!

I don't know if anyone remembers, but several months back, actually last year now, Mykola Bilokonsky and I had some less than friendly run ins. Don't worry, we seem to be on very friendly terms nowadays.

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And it shall be celebrated on each and every February 29th, because the human race can only stand a vacation like that once every four years.

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A nice look at some of Vonnegut's best lines.

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Author Kurt Vonnegut died last week at age 84, leaving his skeptical but stubbornly human stamp on American literature.

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Personal account of a meeting with the late Kurt Vonnegut.

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A touching tribute (Kurt Vonnegut 1922 - 2007) "Please accept our apologies"

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Legendary author and cultural icon Kurt Vonnegut sadly died yesterday at the age of 84, seemingly before he was able to go public on his doubts about the official story behind 9/11 and join a cadre of other w …

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With the April 11 death of Senior Editor Kurt Vonnegut, In These Times lost a dear friend. And the world lost a man who kept his moral compass always pointed in the right—excuse me, left—direction.

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It would be an injustice to summarize a man of his eloquence.

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Perhaps Vonnegut's humour, always with a dark underlay, was his response to a sense of spiritual vertigo. Certainly, the laughter in his work often comes through clenched teeth.

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Read a selection of tributes to Kurt Vonnegut, including this one from Peter, from Humpty Doo in Australia:

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Link just goes to the Newsranker, you have to put in the names yourself. Sorry - HP doesn't like direct links to the app's results.

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