Kurt Vonnegut joins an audience of World Service listeners to answer questions about his novel Slaughterhouse-Five.
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Jon Ronson on Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut is a serious writer who holds a special place in the hearts of teenagers. Jon Ronson got hooked on Vonnegut when he was 15. For his long train rides from Cardiff, Wales, to look at colleges, Ronson packed a bag with Vonnegut’s novels, including Slaughterhouse Five. “It was like I was on the cusp of a new life,” he remembers. “I was about to go out into the world and Vonnegut was my companion.”
Ronson grew up to write journalism that creatively investigates weirdness of various flavors — from alien abductions to neo-Nazi gatherings. His bestseller The Men Who Stare at Goats (made into a movie with George Clooney) is about US military programs that tried to exploit paranormal powers. Vonnegut “made me very much want to be a writer,” Ronson says. At the same time, ”because he puts himself in his books and he always portrays himself as quite miserable, I thought ‘God, I don’t want to be a writer if that’s your life, all alone in a room, chain-smoking.’”
“When I look back on like everything I’ve written time and again it’s very Vonnegut-ish. Because every good story that I write is about people trying to do good in a difficult, crazy, absurd world.”
http://www.studio360.org/2012/dec/07/aha-moment-jon-ronson-on-kurt-vonnegut/
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2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
LibriVox » Short Science Fiction Collection Vol. 002
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92Y Podcast: Kurt Vonnegut Reads Breakfast of Champions
To honor the passing of Kurt Vonnegut, one of the rare and universally loved literary world greats, we present this special podcast of his very first public reading of the classic Breakfast of Champions, three years before it was published, on May 4, 1970 at the 92nd Street Y.
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Third Paradigm: 3P-049 The Student Loan Mafia
Explains how hard-working, responsible graduates become mired in impossible debt. Reviews the history of a predatory industry that has bribed universities, financial aid officers, and Congress to strip all consumer protections. Details the underhanded tactics, usurious fees, and draconian collection practices that have driven borrowers out of jobs, out of the country, and out of their minds.
Reads the poems "All the Hemispheres" by Hafiz, "Caretake This Moment" by Epictetus, and "Life is a Garden, not a Road" by Bokonon. Gives some biography on Epictetus and the Stoics, and presents elements of the religion started by "Bokonon" in Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle. Elucidates the checkered past of Daylight Saving Time and questions whether it’s saving time or stealing it.
Read the show transcript while listening, and view our images, videos, and links on the Third Paradigm website:
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Download the MP392Y Podcast: Kurt Vonnegut Reads Breakfast of Champions
To honor the passing of Kurt Vonnegut, one of the rare and universally loved literary world greats, we present this special podcast of his very first public reading of the classic Breakfast of Champions, three years before it was published, on May 4, 1970 at the 92nd Street Y.
http://blog.92y.org/index.php/item/kurt_vonnegut_breakfast_of_champions_podcast/
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Mindwebs : Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and The Haunted Space Suit by Arthur C. Clarke
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and The Haunted Space Suit by Arthur C. Clarke
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