Biography EssayAs of 1987 Kurt Vonnegut's work includes twelve novels, a play and a television play, two collections of short stories, two collections of essays, and a miscellany of uncollected shorte...
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (born 1922) is acknowledged as a major voice in American literature and applauded for his pungent satirical depictions of modern society. Emphasizing the comic absurdity of the huma...
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Described as "a word cartoonist, a wise guy, a true subversive," by Valerie Sayers in the New York Times, Kurt Vonnegut is lauded as one of America's most respected novelists, "recognized as a thought...
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"I got to be a joke-maker as the youngest member of my family. My sister was five years older than I was, my brother was nine years older, and at the dinner table I was the lowest ranking thing there....
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As of 1977, Vonnegut's work includes eight novels, a play and a television play, two collections of short stories, a collection of essays, and a number of uncollected shorter pieces of fiction and non...
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., remains something of a paradox among science-fiction writers. Although his place of importance in serious American fiction is now secure, his relationship to the genre that nurture...
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[This entry was updated by Peter J. Reed (University of Minnesota) from his entry in DLB 152: American Novelists Since World War II, Fourth Series.]Though Kurt Vonnegut had been a widely read short-st...
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Critical Essay by John Mills
What we have in Jailbird is an extremely closely woven narrative built up of ironic juxtapositions and incongruities stated and counterpointed as in an elaborate symphony...
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Critical Essay by Eric Homberger
[In Jailbird] Vonnegut's manner, as usual, is jokey and faux naïf. He writes about serious matters—labour massacres and judicial murder in Americ...
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Critical Essay by Allen Belkind
Beneath the absurd comedy of [Jailbird] with its chance encounters and unlikely coincidences exists a dark undertone of satiric comment on the loneliness, corruption a...
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Los Angeles (dpa) - She may set up a halfway house for ex-jailbirds
like herself. Alternatively, she's talked about a foundation to help
needy kids. Then there's always the ...
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Lindsay Lohan was a jailbird for just 84 minutes Thursday, becoming the latest celebrity to serve less than a day for a drunken driving offense.Lohan, 21, turned herself in to the Los Angeles Count...
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Ordinarily, a rotund grandfather shopping for watermelon in a supermarket wouldn't get a second look. Carlos Landin Martinez, however, had two bodyguards with him, and an off-duty drug agent buying...
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August Wilson’s extraordinary first play, Jitney (1982), born in the chains of slavery and the necessity of memory, was a tragedy of small and profound lives lived out in good humor and morta...
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Seeing again August Wilson’s compelling Two Trains Running (directed by Lou Bellamy, now in the last two weeks of its extended run at the Signature), I was struck by how badly our theater nee...
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Highlights of the fall film slate (release dates are subject to change, and some films will play in limited release):Late August-September:ACROSS THE UNIVERSE: Beatles tunes are the backdrop for a ...
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Highlights of the fall film slate (release dates are subject to change, and some films will play in limited release):Late August-September:ACROSS THE UNIVERSE: Beatles tunes are the backdrop for a ...
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Critical Essay by John Mills
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