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Nov 12, 2012 · What did he say when he saw eighteen- and nineteen-year-old Iraqi soldiers kneeling on the ground, holding guns over their heads? “Those men are my brothers.” I love that. Somehow, there’s this unspoken rule that in America, “Love of Country” prohibits love of Anyone-Outside-Our-Border. Vonnegut: He said everything he needed to say. I ...
Kurt Vonnegut began his writing career as a writer of short stories published in local and national magazines. These stories were primarily of the science fiction genre, and, even though he wrote ...
Apr 17, 2014 · After the publication of his now-legendary 1969 satirical novel Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut added another point of excellence to his résumé: He became one of the country’s most celebrated and sought-after commencement speakers, and like other masters of the genre — including Neil Gaiman, David Foster Wallace, Debbie Millman, Anna ...
Nov 26, 2012 · Kurt Vonnegut on the Secret of Happiness: An Homage to Joseph Heller’s Wisdom Kurt Vonnegut on the Writer’s Responsibility, the Limitations of the Brain, and Why the Universe Exists: A Rare 1974 WNYC Interview And So It Goes: A Rare Glimpse of Kurt Vonnegut’s Tortured Soul
Jan 1, 2005 · A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut A Man Without a Country is an essay collection published in 2005 by the author Kurt Vonnegut. The extremely short essays that make up this book deal with topics ranging from the importance of humor, to problems with modern technology, to Vonnegut's opinions on the differences between men and women.
Now as far as the teaching goes, Vonnegut did some interviews with NPR before he passed where he’s saying very candidly, “Look, I didn’t know what the hell I was doing as a teacher.” Sometimes you look at Vonnegut and you’ll say, “He’s too self-effacing.
Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five is a satire aimed at criticizing war, particularly the bombing of Dresden during World War II. The bombing of Dresden is a controversial issue because many claim ...
