Kurt Vonnegut
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Against the Semicolon; Vonnegut in Dresden; Women at War
Last week The Guardian (www.guardian.co.uk) canvassed writers living and dead—an eclectic selection including Jonathan Franzen, Zoë Heller, George Bernard Shaw and Gertrude Stein—for their opinion of the semicolon. Perhaps the most vehement response came from the late Kurt Vonnegut: “If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.” read more »
Did We Lose a Literary Generation Along With Mailer, Vonnegut and Paley This Year?
Morris Dickstein of The Los Angeles Times wonders if some kind of literary generation has passed away along with the death of Norman Mailer, Grace Paley and Kurt Vonnegut this year. He wrote that, "Critics love the idea of literary generations, but it would be a challenge to find themes or ideas to link the disparate work of Norman Mailer, Grace Paley and Kurt Vonnegut ... [Yet n]o one would mistake a paragraph of theirs for the prose of another writer." read more »
Slaughterhouse Five Play Coming to Off-Broadway
Get out your anti-war paint. The Godlight Theatre Company is bringing the staged adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five or: The Children's Crusade is coming to Off-Broadway. Previews will start on Jan. 11 at 59E59 Theaters and run until Feb. 17.
Vonnegut Beats Mailer in Posthumous Sales
No writer was more competitive, or ambitious, than Norman Mailer. But if sales are the measure of the public's mind, then honors clearly belong to Kurt Vonnegut, according to the Associated Press. read more »
Kurt Vonnegut’s Final Interview(s)
Three different sources claimed to have spoken to the writer last—but none has an indisputable claim. read more »
It’s Vonnegut Day!
A commissar proposes a fitting way to commemorate the author of Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five. Tralfamadorians rejoice! read more »
The Morning Read: Thursday, April 12, 2007
Andrew Cuomo got the nation's largest student loan company to curb its business practices and pay $2 million to educate the public about the industry.
Unlike George Pataki, Eliot Spitzer based his federal PAC in New York.
Joe Bruno promised to a problem with the Saratoga Springs.
Christine Quinn is getting members in line to override the mayor veto of a cap on pedicabs.
The city comptroller wants to know if Wal-Mart spied on its shareholders.
Promise and Peril Of Fleeing New York- And Coming Back
Promise and Peril Of Fleeing New York— And Coming Back
Sad Sacks in Lock Step, Haunted by Penitent Ghosts
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