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.

Kurt Vonnegut said that in writing Player Piano ( 1952 ) he " cheerfully ripped off the plot of Brave New World, whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin's We.

Renowned author Kurt Vonnegut created a fictional character, the writer Kilgore Trout, who was said to have been a resident of Cohoes.

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

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.

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.

Author Kurt Vonnegut was a fan of Orbach, and during an Australian radio interview in 2005, he said, " People have asked me, you know, ' Who would you rather be, than yourself?

It was not until after Sturgeon's death in 1985 that Vonnegut explicitly acknowledged the matter, stating in a 1987 interview that " Yeah, it said so in his obituary in the New York Times.

I was delighted that it said in the middle of it that he was the inspiration for the Kurt Vonnegut character of Kilgore Trout.

" For some time it was assumed that Vonnegut must have written it ; when the truth of its authorship came out, Vonnegut was reported as being " not amused "; in an issue of the semi-pro zine Science Fiction Review, published by Richard E. Geis, Geis claimed to have received an angry, obscenity-laden telephone call from Vonnegut about what Farmer had said about the book in Geis ' zine.

The foreword was written by Kurt Vonnegut, who said, " his Vonnegut's wish is to tell people who are going insane something about the shape of the roller coaster they are on.

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 a 1973 interview Vonnegut discussed his inspiration to write the book:

Early interview subjects include W. H. Auden, John Berryman, Saul Bellow, Jorge Luis Borges, William S. Burroughs, Truman Capote, John Cheever, Isak Dinesen, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Heller, Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, Marianne Moore, Nabokov, Joyce Carol Oates, Dorothy Parker, Harold Pinter, Irwin Shaw, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Evelyn Waugh, E. B.

In 2005, Brancaccio conducted the last, long-form television interview with the legendary author Kurt Vonnegut.

" 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 collaborated with US composer Dave Soldier for a CD titled Ice-9 Ballads, featuring nine songs with lyrics taken from Cat's Cradle.

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.

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.

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.

: The author Vonnegut credits the invention of ice-nine to Irving Langmuir, who pioneered the study of thin films and interfaces.

While working in the public relations office at General Electric, Vonnegut came across a story of how Langmuir, who won the 1932 Nobel Prize for his work at General Electric, was charged with the responsibility of entertaining the author H. G.

After Langmuir and Wells had died, Vonnegut decided to use the idea in his book Cat's Cradle.

Vonnegut was himself a Hoosier and a graduate of Shortridge High School in Indianapolis.

In his 1997 novel Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut suggested that Andrewes was " the greatest writer in the English language ," citing as proof the first few verses of the 23rd Psalm.

One graduate was Kurt Vonnegut.

Perhaps the most unusual example of this was the fictitious author Kilgore Trout, who appears in the works of Kurt Vonnegut.

; Narrator: Intrusive and anonymous, recurring as a minor character, and as Kurt Vonnegut, himself, when the narrator says: " That was I.

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.

In the novel Bluebeard, by Kurt Vonnegut, the character Dan Gregory states that his yacht, the Ararat, was dry-docked on City Island.

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

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.