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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Kurt Vonnegut is the legendary author of dozens of books, including Timequake, Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse-Five, and, with Lee Stringer, Like Shaking Hands with God, which is available from Washington Square Press.

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Behind the Lines will be released on May 10, 2005 in
May 10, 2005
Behind the Lines is now available in
May 10, 2005
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian will be released on May 22, 2001 in Trade Paperback
May 22, 2001
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian is now available in Trade Paperback
May 22, 2001
Like Shaking Hands With God will be released on December 01, 2000 in Trade Paperback
Dec 01, 2000
Like Shaking Hands With God is now available in Trade Paperback
Dec 01, 2000
Excerpt:
Table of Contents from Behind the Lines
Prior to Dec 19, 2008
Excerpt:
Table of Contents from Like Shaking Hands With God
Prior to Dec 19, 2008

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Recordnet.com, April 13, 2013
...I progressed and learned my craft cohesively. Thinking more of my readers." Now, his role models are Kurt Vonnegut Jr., George Saunders, Gino Diaz and Cormac McCarthy. As a high school teacher for seven years (at Lincoln and Franklin), he's grown to...
Edwardsburg Argus, March 27, 2013
...first one in 1993 has been anti-climactic. That’s because the first visiting author happened to be humanist Kurt Vonnegut Jr., my literary John Lennon. Some others worthy of chiseling on Mount Writemore followed – John Updike, Joseph Heller,...
AsianWeek.com, February 6, 2013
...Back to School .  Mr. Melon, deciding to go back to school in his 50’s, hired the great Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (who played himself in the movie) to write a paper about his own books, but the scheme backfired. Melon’s English professor, Diane Turner, was...
Huffington Post, February 6, 2013
...Back to School. Mr. Melon, deciding to go back to school in his 50's, hired the great Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (who played himself in the movie) to write a paper about his own books, but the scheme backfired. Melon's English professor, Diane Turner, was...
KCLU, January 29, 2013
...on everything from messenger bags to restaurants to a largely panned 1970s TV adaptation of works by author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. It was even a stop on the Underground Railroad in New Jersey. Timbuktu's location on the cusp of the harsh Sahara is one...
The Grid, January 16, 2013
...s Rainbow). There is no single way to write an affecting war novel, nor should there be: As Kurt Vonnegut Jr. proved with Slaughterhouse-Five, a book with aliens and time travel can still provide heartbreaking insight into the 1945 Allied bombing of...
The Grid, January 16, 2013
...s Rainbow). There is no single way to write an affecting war novel, nor should there be: As Kurt Vonnegut Jr. proved with Slaughterhouse-Five, a book with aliens and time travel can still provide heartbreaking insight into the 1945 Allied bombing of...
Kansas City Star, January 18, 2013
...Sometimes, without meaning to do so, we play into the hands of knaves and fools. The late Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., one of my favorite authors, noticed this possibility in the then-new (or relatively new) field of Holocaust studies when he...
The Grid, January 16, 2013
...s Rainbow). There is no single way to write an affecting war novel, nor should there be: As Kurt Vonnegut Jr. proved with Slaughterhouse-Five, a book with aliens and time travel can still provide heartbreaking insight into the 1945 Allied bombing of...
The Grid, January 16, 2013
...s Rainbow). There is no single way to write an affecting war novel, nor should there be: As Kurt Vonnegut Jr. proved with Slaughterhouse-Five, a book with aliens and time travel can still provide heartbreaking insight into the 1945 Allied bombing of...
seattlepi.com, January 16, 2013
...would you most like to meet and why? I think I really would have enjoyed meeting the late Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.--our sense of humor and world view are similar. Do you have any upcoming projects that you would like to share with readers? I'm sworn to...
New York Observer, January 15, 2013
...helped subsidize F. Scott Fitzgerald’s crack-ups. C.S. Lewis, Agatha Christie, William Saroyan, Rudyard Kipling, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and William Faulkner all had bylines in the magazine. “What Steve is trying to do is get the best of...
Noozhawk.com, January 14, 2013
...treated to Nicholas Woolf reading Three Fat Women of Antibes by Somerset Maugham, Rudy Willrich reading Confido by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Leslie Story reading Returns and Exchanges by Elizabeth Berg and E. Bonnie Lewis reading Awake by Jenny Allen. Such a...
On The Wight, January 13, 2013
...beautiful and nothing hurt. And all of this really happened, more or less, to quote my favourite author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Twice. I’m such a show-off. One of my Christmas presents was a box set of the TV series the Bridge, and we’ve been watching it...