Eliot Rosewater also shows up in other books by Kurt Vonnegut, such as God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.

Yet Vonnegut also punctuates his dystopia with humor.

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.

He has also claimed to be influenced by " Bryson, Barry, Twain, Elton, Wodehouse, Adams, Vonnegut, John Irving, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack Handey, Al Franken, that sort of thing.

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

The plot, while centered on Trout, is also a sort of ramble in which Vonnegut goes off on complete tangents to the plot and comes back dozens of pages later: the Timequake has thrust citizens of the year 2001 back in time to 1991 to repeat every action they undertook during that time.

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.

Examples of this kind of narrator include Jim Carroll in The Basketball Diaries and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. in Timequake ( in this case, the first-person narrator is also the author ).

Salinger, William Faulkner, Margaret Laurence, Kurt Vonnegut, Mordecai Richler, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Isaac Asimov also ' crossover ' with each other, linking different characters and settings together over a number of different works.

He was originally created as a fictionalized version of author Theodore Sturgeon ( Vonnegut's colleague in the genre of science fiction — Vonnegut was amused by the notion of a person with the name of a fish, Sturgeon, hence Trout ), although Trout's consistent presence in Vonnegut's works has also led critics to view him as the author's own alter ego.

Trout is also described differently in several books ; in Breakfast of Champions, he has, by the end, become something of a father figure, while in other novels, he seems to be something like Vonnegut in the early part of his career.

Trout also has an encounter with his creator, Mr. Vonnegut, in the final chapter.

Jailbird also features a brief appearance of Kilgore Trout, a recurring Vonnegut character who writes science fiction novels and stories.

Kurt Vonnegut also commonly used this technique: the first chapter of his 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five is about the process of writing the novel and calls attention to his own presence throughout the novel.

Kurt Vonnegut also refers to a Brooks Brothers suit worn by the main character in his book, Jailbird.

They have also been called " America's Poets " by Kurt Vonnegut.

He is also the brother of Edith and Nanette Vonnegut.

He also translated into Italian the works of Henry James, Herman Melville, William Carlos Williams, James Baldwin and Kurt Vonnegut.

( In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Breakfast of Champions he also has a character do this, and Vonnegut breaks the fourth wall to tell readers that it is a direct homage to this famous scene with the Duchess.

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.

" 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.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. wrote a play, Penelope, that was performed at the theater.

Julian Moynahan wrote in a New York Times book review that Bluebeard was a “ minor achievement ” and that Vonnegut “ isn ’ t moving ahead.

There were several unique aspects of the style in which Vonnegut wrote Bluebeard.

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

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

* Other short stories Vonnegut wrote during the same time period are collected in a second anthology, Bagombo Snuff Box, released 1999.

Vonnegut first attributed his recovery to orthomolecular megavitamin therapy and then wrote The Eden Express.

Also, it was popularly assumed that Vonnegut wrote the book.

Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse-Five ( 1969 ), which used the science fiction storytelling device of time-travel to explore anti-war, moral, and sociological themes.

Kurt Vonnegut ( who witnesses the bombing of Dresden from the basement of a slaughterhouse as a prisoner of war ) used The Destruction of Dresden as a source for the 1969 novel Slaughterhouse Five where he wrote that he emerged from the slaughterhouse to find " 135, 000 Hansels and Gretels had been baked like gingerbread men ".

* In 1993, United States novelist Kurt Vonnegut reworked the libretto into a tale about World War II Private Eddie Slovik, the first soldier in the United States military to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.

Vonnegut narrated his lyrics to Soldier's music.

* Nora's Tale, written and illustrated by Edith Vonnegut Rivera.

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

* The year in which Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut takes place is 2081.

by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr .. Christopher Walken and Susan Sarandon portray two painfully shy people who find one another through a community theater production of " A Streetcar Named Desire ", in which they portray the tempestuous Stanley and Stella Kowalski.

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.

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 uses the premise of a timequake ( or repetition of actions ) in which there is no free will.

" Another granfalloon example illustrated in the book were Hoosiers, of which the narrator ( and Vonnegut himself ) was a member.

In A Man Without a Country, Vonnegut receives a brief phone call on January 20, 2004 from Kilgore Trout in which they discuss George W. Bush's State of the Union Address and the imminent death of the Earth due to human carelessness.

The title is both a reference to the islands on which part of the story plays out, and a tribute to Charles Darwin on whose theory Vonnegut relies to reach his own conclusions.

Though much of the novel has to do with Vonnegut's own experiences during the firebombing of Dresden, Vonnegut continually points out the artificiality of the central narrative arc which contains obviously fictional elements such as aliens and time travel.

Hocus Pocus is a 1990 novel by Kurt Vonnegut which deals with themes of class, race, crime, suicide, and globalization.

Though almost all the stories were initially written and published in the 1950s, for this collection, Vonnegut re-wrote three stories with which he had been dissatified.

After publication, a poorly-worded magazine article gave Vonnegut the impression that Farmer had planned to write the story regardless of his permission, which angered Vonnegut.

Authors of books published by Pantheon, Random House, and other related imprints, including Studs Terkel, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., and Oliver Sacks, held a protest outside of Random House in March 1990 during which they argued that the termination of Schiffrin amounted to corporate censorship of the books that would not be printed without him.

The book continues until two years later, on Valentine's Day, 1971, Vonnegut had suffered from a psychotic episode and was committed to Woodlands Psychiatric Hospital in New Westminster, about 10 days after taking mescaline, which left him unable to sleep and uninterested in eating.

The name " Barnhouse Effect " originates from the short story Report on the Barnhouse Effect by Kurt Vonnegut in which a professor, Arthur Barnhouse, develops telekinetic techniques.

Like Shaking Hands With God is a book which consists of two conversations between Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer with Ross Klavan as moderator and containing a foreword by Daniel Simon.

The column soon became the subject of an urban legend, in which it was alleged to be an MIT commencement speech given by author Kurt Vonnegut in that same year ( in truth, MIT's commencement speaker that year was Kofi Annan ).

Despite a follow-up article by Schmich on August 3, 1997, in which she referred to the " lawless swamp of cyberspace " that had made her and Kurt Vonnegut " one ", by 1999 the falsely attributed story was widespread.

They decided to use it but were doubtful of getting through to Vonnegut for permission before their deadline, which was only one or two days away.