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Mother Night (1996): A Review
Mother Night
May 9, 2012
Although Keith Gordon is perhaps best known for playing Rodney Dangerfield's son in the classic campus comedy Back to School (1986), Gordon...
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'Slaughterhouse-Five' by Kurt Vonnegut
Banned Book
May 3, 2012
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 work of World War II satire, is widely considered to be his most influential novel, as well as one of...
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Review: 'Look at the Birdie' by Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
February 28, 2012
Look at the Birdie, the first full posthumous short-story collection by Kurt Vonnegut, is the most interesting sort of Terrible; confusing,...
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Review: 'And So It Goes' by Charles J. Shields
And So It Goes
January 27, 2012
That Kurt Vonnegut’s oldest son, Mark, has already spoken toward the inaccuracy of his father’s portrayal in Charles Shields’...
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Post-Modernism Banned!
Kurt Vonnegut
December 27, 2011
In a review of Slaughterhouse- Five, Time Magazine called it’s author, Kurt Vonnegut, “a zany but moral mad scientist.” It&rsquo...
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The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon--save your money
Literature
October 26, 2011
When one thinks of the works of Thomas Pynchon, the mind drudges up terms like “tour de force,” “loopy,” and &ldquo...
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Kurt Vonnegut pulls out all stops in final novel
Kurt Vonnegut
August 20, 2011
Fairly early on in his semi-autobiographical novel Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut states that it will be his final novel, after discussing some well...
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Banned books: Just in time for school
Back to school
August 17, 2011
Earlier this summer, Missouri banned two books from its high-school reading list:Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five andSarah Ockler's...
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'Slaughterhouse-Five' banned from Missouri high school library
Banned books
August 16, 2011
“Filthy books demeaning to Republic education,” an article written last September by Missouri State assistant professor Wesley...
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Vonnegut victim of horrified hatchet
Kurt Vonnegut
August 8, 2011
No matter how cynical you are, no matter how little faith you have in the state of American culture, there are still some things that come as a...
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