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- Vonnegut is considered one of the most influential American novelists of the twentieth century. He blended literature with science fiction and humor, and the absurd with pointed social commentary.
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He's a good writer though, and he uses his work to explore ideas in a way that is easy to understand and engage with. That's not quite the same thing as being a good novelist. I wouldn't go to Vonnegut for an immersive story or strong characters, but that doesn't make what he offers bad.
Apr 11, 2017 · Vonnegut’s many thoughts on writing have been widely shared, taught, studied and adapted (designer Maya Eilam’s infographic-ized version of his “shapes of stories” lecture springs vividly to mind) because his advice tends to be straightforward, generous, and (most importantly) right.
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- Player Piano (1952) Vonnegut’s first novel is a dystopia about the rising threat of automation, taking place in a future where human workers have been made almost entirely redundant by machines.
- The Sirens of Titan (1959) Malachi Constant is the richest man on Earth — but dominating just one planet doesn’t seem to be enough for him.
- Mother Night (1962) “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” Such is Vonnegut’s message to readers in the introduction of Mother Night.
- Cat’s Cradle (1963) Cat’s Cradle is Vonnegut’s take on the horrors of the atomic bomb and the Cold War threat of nuclear destruction. Narrator John (or “Jonah” as he asks to be called) is working on a book called The Day the World Ended about the day Americans bombed Hiroshima.
- Find a Subject You Care About. Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.
- Do Not Ramble, Though. I won’t ramble on about that.
- Keep It Simple. As for your use of language: Remember that two great masters of language, William Shakespeare and James Joyce, wrote sentences which were almost childlike when their subjects were most profound. ‘
- Have the Guts to Cut. It may be that you, too, are capable of making necklaces for Cleopatra, so to speak. But your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head.
- Kurt Vonnegut Met His First Wife in Kindergarten.
- Vonnegut’s Mother Died by Suicide on Mother's Day.
- He Turned His P.O.W. Experience Into A Bestselling Book.
- Contrary to Rumors, Vonnegut Wasn‘T Frat Buddies with Dr. Seuss.
- Vonnegut Held A Series of Odd Jobs to Support His Family.
- He Adopted His Sister‘S Three Kids.
- Vonnegut Attempted Suicide in 1984.
- He Graded All His Books.
- Vonnegut Loved Watching Cheers.
- He Had A Connection to The Cape Cod Cannibal.
Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on November 11, 1922, Vonnegut met his future wife, Jane, in kindergarten. Although they dated as teenagers in high school, their relationship paused when Vonnegut went to Cornell University, dropped out to serve in World War II, and became a prisoner of war in Germany. After returning to the U.S., he married Jane in ...
When Vonnegut was born, his parents were well off. Kurt Sr., his father, was an architect, and Edith, his mother, was independently wealthy from the brewery that her family owned. But due to Prohibition and the Great Depression, the family struggled to make ends meet, sold their home, and switched their son to a public school. Edith, who suffered f...
Because Vonnegut was flunking his classes at Cornell, he decided to drop out and join the army to fight in World War II. During the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, German forces captured him, along with other American prisoners of war, in Dresden. Forced to work long hours in a malt-syrup factory, Vonnegut slept in a subterranean slaughterhouse. In a ...
An urban legend suggests that Vonnegut and Theodor Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss) were college friends who spent time together in the same fraternity. But according to Snopes, the tale of Geisel and Vonnegut’s friendship is greatly exaggerated—in fact, it’s false. The two authors probably never met, and they didn’t attend any of the same schools (plus, ...
In 1947, Vonnegut began working in public relations for General Electric, an experience that he drew upon to write Cat‘s Cradle. He wrote articles and short stories for magazines such as Collier‘s and The Saturday Evening Post, and his first novel, Player Piano, was published in 1952. Vonnegut then briefly wrote for Sports Illustrated, managed a Sa...
In the late 1950s, Vonnegut’s sister, Alice, died of cancer, and Alice’s husband died in a train accident within the span of a few days. Although Vonnegut already had three children with his wife, he adopted his sister’s three sons. Since he now had six children to support, Vonnegut spent even more time writing to earn money.
Although Slaughterhouse-Five made him a famous, bestselling author, Vonnegut struggled with depression in the midst of his literary success. After separating from his wife in 1971, he lived alone in New York City and had trouble writing. His son was diagnosed with schizophrenia (though it was actually probably bipolar disorder), and although Vonneg...
In an interview with Charlie Rose, Vonnegut discussed his grading system for his books (he also wrote about this system in Palm Sunday, a collection of his works published in 1981). He gave himself an A+ for his writing in Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five but wasn’t as generous with Happy Birthday, Wanda June or Slapstick, which both received D...
In 1991, while speaking to the press to promote his Showtime television show Vonnegut’s Monkey House, he extolled the virtues of the NBC show Cheers. “I’d rather have written Cheers than anything I’ve written,” he said. Although he viewed television in general with skepticism, he made an exception for the long-running sitcom, calling ittelevision’s...
In Vonnegut’s words, his daughter, Edith, met Tony Costa “during a crazy summer she spent on her own in Provincetown, [Massachusetts], knew him well enough to receive and decline an invitation he evidently extended to many girls: ‘Come and see my marijuana patch.’” That illicit garden was where Costa buried the bodies of his several of his victims....
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Apr 3, 2012 · Now comes Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922–April 11, 2007) — anarchist, Second Life dweller, imaginary interviewer of the dead, sad soul — with eight tips on how to write a good short story, narrated by the author himself.
Vonnegut's writing was inspired by an eclectic mix of sources. When he was younger, Vonnegut stated that he read works of pulp fiction , science fiction, fantasy, and action-adventure. He also read the classics , such as the plays of Aristophanes —like Vonnegut's works, humorous critiques of contemporary society. [ 147 ]
