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1. www.americamagazine.org › arts-culture › 2022/10/13Kurt Vonnegut would still be amused. | America Magazine

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   Oct 13, 2022 · The absolute refusal to accept handed-down truths—whether in politics, science, religion or art—was a constant in Kurt Vonnegut’s life and work.

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3. www.npr.org › 2022/11/11 › 1135127289Kurt Vonnegut would have turned 100 today — his novels are ...

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   Nov 11, 2022 · Vonnegut, who died in 2007 at the age of 84, would have turned 100 today. He was born in Indianapolis on Nov. 11, 1922, Armistice Day. The late author wrote satirical and darkly humorous...

4. thecritic.co.uk › hatred-without-endHatred without end | Sebastian Milbank | The Critic Magazine

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   Oct 8, 2024 · Vonnegut strips away that illusion, isolating moments from their context, forcing us to confront the moral significance of death. The narrator’s own apparent, amused indifference becomes, as Salman Rushdie writes, a mask of comedy that communicates the inexpressible horror of mass slaughter. Vonnegut is no apologist for the Nazis, but refuses ...

5. thedailyvonnegut.com › kurt-vonneguts-humanism-anKurt Vonnegut’s Humanism: An Interview with Wayne Laufert ...

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   Apr 4, 2023 · In his late career book God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Kurt Vonnegut wrote, “I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I’m dead.” Throughout his career, Vonnegut often wrote of his humanist views, tracing them back to his “freethinking” ancestors ...

6. www.npr.org › 2021/11/17 › 1056477983'Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time' remains faithful to the ...

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   Nov 17, 2021 · A new IFC documentary called "Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time" will open in theaters and begin streaming on demand this Friday. It's co-directed by Robert Weide and Don Argott and produced and...

7. www.barnesandnobleinc.com › press-release › kurtKurt Vonnegut’s “Lost Board Game” Finally Published After ...

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   1 day ago · New York, NY – November 1, 2024 – Barnes & Noble and Mars International are thrilled to announce that Kurt Vonnegut’s board game has finally been brought to fruition. GHQ (short for General Headquarters) is now available in Barnes & Noble bookstores across the country. Fans of Vonnegut have been celebrating the publication since its ...

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   Would Kurt Vonnegut still be amused?

   • Kurt Vonnegut would still be amused. The novelist Kurt Vonnegut, whose birth centenary we celebrate in November, was many things during his 84 years on earth: war veteran, trained mechanical engineer, crime reporter, corporate publicist, used car salesman.

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   Is Kurt Vonnegut a humanist?

   • In his late career book God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Kurt Vonnegut wrote, “I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I’m dead.” Throughout his career, Vonnegut often wrote of his humanist views, tracing them back to his “freethinking” ancestors in Indiana.

   Kurt Vonnegut’s Humanism: An Interview with ... - The Daily Vonnegut

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   Is Kurt Vonnegut still alive?

   • Kurt Vonnegut. / Ulf Andersen/GettyImages November 11, 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Slaughterhouse-Five author Kurt Vonnegut, who died in 2007 at the age of 84. But the words of the free-thinking, veteran skeptic, humanist humorist live on.

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   Is Kurt Vonnegut 'unstuck in time' worth watching?

   • TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. A new IFC documentary called "Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time" will open in theaters and begin streaming on demand this Friday. It's co-directed by Robert Weide and Don Argott and produced and written by Weide, who began work on it almost 40 years ago. Our TV critic David Bianculli says it was worth the wait.

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   Was Kurt Vonnegut disappointed in America?

   • 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. Kurt Vonnegut was disappointed in America. "I'm sorry that America isn't a greater success than it is," he told me in 1991.

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   How did Kurt Vonnegut change the world?

   • Vonnegut was a very different kettle of fish, moving from slightly dotty time-traveling science fiction to pity-of-it-all war horror and back again, all leavened by exasperated satire of the sort of “collective make-believes” that make the world go round, the prime examples being, to Vonnegut’s mind, organized religion and mainstream politics.

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9. www.mentalfloss.com › article › 5997711 of Kurt Vonnegut’s Most Memorable Quotes - Mental Floss

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   Nov 7, 2022 · 1. “I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.” — As quoted in The Observer, 1987. 2. “A purpose of human life,...