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Birthday Suit: You've Seen Demi's

The Birthday Boys and Girls of 11/11 1821 Fyodor Dostoevsky , legendary Russian author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov fame. So many movies inspired by his work. But he's not the legendary Russian author that'll be getting all the press this next couple of months. That'd be Leo Tolstoy, soon to be chattered about when The Last Station emerges as an Oscar contender . 1887 Roland Young...

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November 11

Happy Birthday, Stanley Tucci, Lee Haney, Demi Moore, and Calista Flockhart. And of course, a Happy Birthday to Kurt Vonnegut who wrote this: I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were...

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October 2009 in books

Some of these reviews can also be found on Amazon . In October 2009 I read the following books: 1. 2 B R 0 2 B , by Kurt Vonnegut This very short story is available for free download from Project Gutenberg. "Everything was perfectly swell. There were no prisons, no slums, no insane asylums, no cripples, no poverty, no wars. All diseases were conquered. So was old age." And yet the Utopia...

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HJHOP Flashback: "Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt"

This is something that I wrote back when we lost Kurt Vonnegut. I reread it tonight, and it struck me as probably one of the better things that I have written at HJHOP. So, I inflict it upon you again. When George Harrison died, I was surprised by how upset I was. During the inevitable retrospectives on the local oldies station, I was simply overwhelmed, when I listened to his solo work, by his contribution...

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Seeing a little something of life – NYT review of Vonnegut’s ‘Look at the Birdie’

Nice review last week in the NY Times of Look at the Birdie, a collection of previously unpublished short fiction by Kurt Vonnegut, which was instantly put on my Xmas gift list — for others, and for me. From Dave Eggars’ intro: It’s been two years since Kurt Vonnegut departed this world, and it’s hard not [...]

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After Ayn Rand Week, the Healing Begins

How little you have to do to get into the feature well of a slick magazine these days. Thomas Mallon's takedown of Ayn Rand in The New Yorker is not online, but it is so phoned-in and lacking in protein that even this synopsis of the article feels padded. There's 1943-vintage prissy caviling about Rand's writing style. ("It is, in fact, badly executed on every level of language, plot, and characterization.")...

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Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements

Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements This witty and heavily illustrated volume features more than 300 vintage book advertisements—startling and strange, beautiful and funny—that together reveal a kind of secret history of American literature over the last century. New York Times book critic Dwight Garner brings together original ads for some of the most acclaimed...

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Look at the Birdie

Dave Eggers reviews a posthumous collection of stories by Kurt Vonnegut, in the New York Times Book Review: It’s been two years since Kurt Vonnegut departed this world, and it’s hard not to feel a bit rudderless without him. Late...

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'Look at the Birdie,' by Kurt Vonnegut

Look at the Birdie Unpublished Short Fiction By Kurt Vonnegut (Delacorte Press; 251 pages; $27) Kurt Vonnegut's 26th book, "Armageddon in Retrospect," a collection of unpublished essays and stories, with illustrations and a personal letter from the author,...

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Donald Barthelme's Syllabus . A list of...

Donald Barthelme's Syllabus . A list of 81 books that Barthelme recommended to his students. As it happens, thanks largely to Clay Lewis and William Ruckert I've read 34 of these. One semester they team-taught a four credit course called "Contemporary Literature" or some such. The fashion at Geneseo then was to have these monstrous surveys, taught by two or more faculty members. The idea...

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Books: Review:Douglas Coupland: Generation A

After Douglas Coupland’s 1991 novel Generation X became an international bestseller and slapped a name on a generation of kids, he resisted becoming a spokesperson for them, and disavowed the label he’d given them. For his 13th novel, Generation A , he establishes the source of the Gen-A term up front in an commencement-speech epigraph from Kurt Vonnegut—supposedly Vonnegut’s...

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Slaughterhouse Five © Kurt Vonnegut

The Boston Celtics have played 5 games already this young NBA season but they've been pretty impressive so far. The Celtics have held their opponents to staggeringly low 79.8 points a game while scoring 101.4 per contest. Their 21.6 deficit of victory is awe inspiring as well. The Celtics' big issue last year was that they had a thin squad and when they suffered key injuries they had no one to step...

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Eggers on Vonnegut -- By: Ramesh Ponnuru

Dave Eggers in the Times Book Review : It’s been two years since Kurt Vonnegut departed this world, and it’s hard not to feel a bit rudderless without him. Late in his life, Vonnegut issued a series of wonderfully exasperated columns for the magazine In These Times. During the darkest years of the Bush administration, these essays, later collected in “A Man Without a Country,”...

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Vague Thoughts on The Theory of the Firm, the Business Cycle and Kurt Vonnegut

Robert Waldmann Don't say you weren't warned. I am trying to understand the effects of the switch from mechanically controlled machine tools to electronically controlled machine tools and then to digitally controlled machine tools. I don't really know much about machine tools, but, then again, I don't know much about firms or the business cycle either. My thoughts after the jump. I warn again, don't...

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Slaughterhouse Five (Part Two of Two)

KURT VONNEGUT: If you wish to study a granfalloon, just remove the skin of a toy balloon. In Part One, entitled “Cats Cradle“ , I sadly put forth the proposition that all of New York’s ballot status parties, save the Conservatives, were granfalloons . The creator of that term, Kurt Vonnegut, defined it as meaning “a proud and meaningless association of human beings.”...