They collaborated with such artists as Dennis Hopper, Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Stipe, Bono, Susan Sarandon, k. d.

Kurt Vonnegut's 1974 interview with Joe David Bellamy and John Casey, published in The New Fiction and in Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut, contained a discussion of The New Yorkers influence:

" In response to Vonnegut and Truss, Ben MacIntyre, columnist in The Times ( London ), wrote: " Americans have long regarded the semi-colon with suspicion, as a genteel, self-conscious, neither-one-thing-nor-the other sort of punctuation mark, with neither the butchness of a full colon nor the flighty promiscuity of the comma.

Vonnegut said in an interview with The Nation that " Langmuir was absolutely indifferent to the uses that might be made of the truths he dug out of the rock and handed out to whoever was around, but any truth he found was beautiful in its own right, and he didn ’ t give a damn who got it next.

Vonnegut later joked in a speech, published in the collection Fates Worse Than Death, that " Ever since that word was published, way back in 1969, children have been attempting to have intercourse with their mothers.

The column was circulated around the Internet, with an erroneous claim that it was a commencement address by Kurt Vonnegut, usually at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the misattribution became a news item when Vonnegut was contacted by reporters to comment.

Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death ( 1969 ) is a satirical novel by Kurt Vonnegut about World War II experiences and journeys through time of a soldier called Billy Pilgrim.

Yet Vonnegut also punctuates his dystopia with humor.

It received direct praise from Vonnegut himself, who said, " I am glad to see the appropriate measures taken with my story.

Vonnegut was quoted as saying that while he did not mind the story being used in the suit, he disagreed with the lawyers ' interpretation of it.

According to David Rampton in “ Studies in Contemporary Fiction ,” Circe Berman ’ s approaching Rabo with the challenge of making meaningful, moral art is Vonnegut himself directly addressing meaninglessness in art by asking for “ committed art .” Rampton also proposed that Vonnegut may be questioning the possibility of truly moral art by writing about the lack of morality in the lives of many artists.

Morse also said that Karabekian as a writer is very similar to Vonnegut as a writer, and that the criticism Circe Berman gives to Karabekian about his writing is a parallel to the issues critics have with Vonnegut ’ s writing.

Vonnegut used Cohn with his verbal permission, promising in a January 1979 telephone call to " do him no harm and to present him as an appallingly effective attorney for either the prosecution or the defense of anyone ," according to the prologue of the novel.

Vonnegut described the novel as a " stew ", in which he alternates between summarizing a novel he had been struggling with for a number of years, and waxing nostalgic about various events in his life.

Vonnegut explains in the beginning of the book that he was not satisfied with the original version of Timequake he wrote ( or Timequake One ).

Carson's legislative record included leading Congress to pass a House measure awarding Rosa Parks the Congressional Gold Medal ; cosponsoring, with Sen. Richard Lugar, the removal of bureaucratic bottlenecks on child health insurance ; and the commemoration of the life and accomplishments of author Kurt Vonnegut ( H. RES. 324 ).

Within the month, Schaefer's colleague, the noted atmospheric scientist Dr. Bernard Vonnegut ( brother of novelist Kurt Vonnegut ) is credited with discovering another method for " seeding " supercooled cloud water.

Vonnegut accomplished his discovery at the desk, looking up information in a basic chemistry text and then tinkering with silver and iodide chemicals to produce silver iodide.

Vonnegut gets a songwriters ' credit on the album which peaked on the US charts at # 22 in 1975.

The fraternity's membership roster includes United States President James A. Garfield ( Williams 1856 ), Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court Charles Evans Hughes ( Colgate and Brown 1881 ), United States Senator-Vermont Justin S. Morrill ( Middlebury 1860 ), Canadian Prime Minister and Nobel Prize winner Lester B. Pearson ( Toronto 1919 ), President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos ( Kansas 1973 ), former Commander in Chief of the US Central Command Tommy Franks ( Texas 1963 ), Actor Alan Thicke ( Western Ontario 1967 ), Author Stephen Crane ( Lafayette and Syracuse 1894 ), Author Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ( Cornell 1944 ), former Chairman and CEO of Walt Disney Co. Michael D. Eisner ( Denison 1964 ), and Nobel Prize winners Charles Dawes ( Marietta 1884 ), Christian B. Anfinsen ( Swarthmore 1937 ), and Edward C. Prescott ( Swarthmore 1962 ).

*" Unknown Soldier " ( short story ), a short story written by Kurt Vonnegut

Writers like Kurt Vonnegut said that The New Yorker has been an effective institution for getting a large audience through the learning process required for appreciating modern literature.

After turning down his original thesis, in 1971 the University of Chicago awarded Vonnegut his Master's degree in anthropology for Cat's Cradle.

After World War II, Kurt Vonnegut worked in the public relations department for the General Electric research company.

However, it is largely based on Schenectady, NY, where Vonnegut worked as a publicity man for General Electric after World War II.

Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut were slated for removal in deference to a complaint by local resident Wesley Scroggins, a professor at Missouri State University whose own children are homeschooled.

Campbell is the protagonist of an earlier Vonnegut novel, Mother Night, in which he is revealed to have been working for the OSS against the Germans, using his pro-Nazi persona as a cover.

Some considered the novel a milestone in Vonnegut's career ; Philadelphia Inquirer called it " Vonnegut at his edifying best ," and Chicago Tribune said it was " a major breakthrough for Vonnegut ," and " a new and vital phase in his career.

The editor's note at the beginning of the novel suggests Campbell's writings, the text of the novel itself, are a manuscript that Vonnegut received and is editing for public view.

In opposition to the common Show, don't tell rule in literature, Vonnegut observes his characters from an almost omniscient perspective ; for example, " His name is Andor Gutman.

They also performed Lee Brooks ' score for the short film 2081, based on the Kurt Vonnegut short story " Harrison Bergeron.

" They praised Vonnegut for " blending skilfully a psychological study of the persistent human problems in a mechanistically ' ideal ' society, a vigorous melodramatic story-line, and a sharp Voltairean satire.

In the conclusion of this book, Vonnegut ( who has inserted himself into the text, something he also did in Breakfast of Champions and, to a lesser degree, in Slaughterhouse-Five ) meets other authors for a celebration of Trout.

" The paper also carried a petition in support signed by 106 creatives, including Susan Sarandon, Steve Martin, Norman Mailer, Arthur Miller, Kurt Vonnegut and Susan Sontag, saying that the mayor " blatantly disregards constitutional protection for freedom of the arts.

Preston confesses he wrote it and that he is about to depart for a pre-college writing workshop with Kurt Vonnegut.

Menken's first major professional work was with Ashman for the Off-Broadway 1979 WPA Theatre production of the play God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, an adaptation of a Kurt Vonnegut novel.

* Kurt Vonnegut Jr. for Slaughterhouse Five

* Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut, alternatively titled " Goodbye Blue Monday!

Wear Sunscreen or Sunscreen are the common names of an article titled " Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young " written by Mary Schmich and published in the Chicago Tribune as a column in 1997, but often erroneously attributed to a commencement speech by author Kurt Vonnegut.

He also played a TV contest announcer in " Between Time and Timbuktu ," a 1972 PBS production featuring several short stories by Kurt Vonnegut, linked together by an unfortunate astronaut, played by William Hickey, who was launched into a time warp after winning the contest.

The band had multiple songs influenced by literary works, including those of Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen King, Philip K. Dick and Neal Stephenson.