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Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

“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

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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