Kurt Vonnegut

Library Diva added the blog post 'Dude Lit'

You know I love chick lit, as sort of a "guilty pleasure." I wondered why it was specific to men, as there are some damn good books on here, but I guess that probably has to do with it being a men's magazine, like "The Ten...

Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without A Country

Author's Final Book A Memoir Of Musings Late novelist Kurt Vonnegut's last book is a volume of cranky & humorous musings on everything from life in America in the 21st century to the importance of music. Although it was not...

Fun Fact Friday!!!

I have a Mental Glitch when it comes to buttering toast. I KNOW. Who has a fucking Glitch about toast, right? I habitually butter my toast to very, very, edge of the edges. It is a trait that I inherited...

Books Of The Year

Sam Leith Richard Price’s meaty and fabulously enjoyable police procedural, Lush Life (Bloomsbury, £12.99), is a book I have pressed on a lot of friends. The new Robert B. Parker, Rough Weather (Quercus, £16.99), is bliss, too,...

Hip Young Gunslingers

Special to The Post and Courier A trio of South Carolina natives, local band Hip Young Gunslingers proves that there's only one requirement for making good music: taking it seriously. The group of friends formed the band in...

Hollywood Goes to War

Actor Audie Murphy was the most highly-decorated soldier in World War II, from which he later suffered insomnia, depression, and nightmares. Today some people want to use him as a propaganda symbol in support of current...

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Bio and Work

American Novelist and Science Fiction Writer Brief biography and work of American writer Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., best-known for Slaughterhouse-Five. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., was a thought-provoking novelist who wrote satirical, black...

Piven, Lavey, Zacek, Schwimmer Will Remember Terkel with 'Will the Circle Be Unbroken?' Reading...

Playbill - A Who's Who of Chicago theatre will pay tribute to literary legend Studs Terkel with a Nov. 17 free staged reading of Will the Circle Be Unbroken?, adapted by Derek Goldman from Terkel's book about life, death and...

What's going on Tuesday? (Veterans Day)

The Decemberists @ the Wellmont Theater (more by Faith Ann-Young) today in NYC * DANCE * Jonah Matranga @ a hotel * Issue Project Room benefit show * Frida Hyvonen @ the Living Room * Neil Halstead @ Mercury Lounge...

FirstAlert: 5-5:20 P.M. Investrend / Bestcalls

November 11, 2008 (Financial Wire) Conference calls scheduled at 5 to 5:20 p.m. on Investrend Broadcast via partner BestCalls include Hologic Inc. (NASDAQ: HOLX), Semitool Inc. (NASDAQ: SMTL), Concur Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:...

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