Topic: Kurt Vonnegut
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12 electrifying memoirs and biographies you might have missed
Check out these 12 recent memoirs and biographies that might have escaped your notice.
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10 novels in translation you should know
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Bestselling books the week of 2/24/11, according to IndieBound*
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Bestselling books the week of 2/17/11, according to IndieBound*
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Bestselling books the week of Feb. 10, 2011, according to IndieBound*
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How Literature Saved My Life
Looking through a hyper-personal lens, David Shields offers opinions and proclamations on what makes particular writers important.
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12 electrifying memoirs and biographies you might have missed
Check out these 12 recent memoirs and biographies that might have escaped your notice.
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Chapter & Verse Weird science: 'This Is Improbable' chronicles the world's strange experiments
Writer Marc Abrahams discusses some of the world's oddest scientific innovations in his book 'This Is Improbable.'
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Reader recommendation: And So It Goes
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
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Chapter & Verse Kurt Vonnegut: unpublished work released through Kindle
A Vonnegut novella titled 'Basic Training,' about a young man visiting an eccentric relative, is available through Kindle only.
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And So It Goes
The first serious biography of counterculture hero Kurt Vonnegut reveals a man wounded by his childhood and full of contradictions as an adult.
12/01/2011 06:05 am -
Chapter & Verse "Slaughterhouse Five" ban is reversed – sort of – at a Missouri school
"Slaughterhouse Five" and another banned book are now back in the Republic High School library – but must stay in a restricted area.
09/21/2011 12:17 pm -
Chapter & Verse Still no great 9/11 novel?
Not yet, says our critic. But while we wait for the standout still to come, here are a few near misses.
09/08/2011 12:15 pm -
Chapter & Verse Kurt Vonnegut gets the boot in a Missouri school
A high school in Republic, Mo. bans two books, including Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five," after a parent complains about material incompatible with the Bible.
07/28/2011 11:27 am -
Write stuff: The workshop that shapes American literature
The Iowa Writers' Workshop, on its 75th anniversary, offers a window into the state of American letters.
06/25/2011 11:25 am -
Those Guys Have All the Fun
It's big and it's bloated but – like the sports empire that it covers – this is a book that you don't want to miss.
06/21/2011 05:39 pm -
10 novels in translation you should know
The finalists for the 2011 Best Translated Book Award – sponsored by the Three Percent weblog – were announced last week. The winning works of fiction selected were translated from German, Spanish, Afrikaans, Czech, French and Swedish. To read these books is to travel the globe in extraordinary style.
03/29/2011 12:50 pm -
Bestselling books the week of 2/24/11, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
02/23/2011 04:10 pm -
Bestselling books the week of 2/17/11, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
02/15/2011 04:43 pm -
Bestselling books the week of Feb. 10, 2011, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
02/08/2011 03:52 pm -
Bestselling books the week of Feb. 3, 2011, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
02/01/2011 03:57 pm -
The Making of a Writer, Volume 2
The second installment of Gail Godwin’s journals traces her life and career from London to Iowa.
01/05/2011 06:05 am -
Top 10 time travelers
Strictly speaking, we're all one-way time travelers: plodding forward through the progress of existence second-by-second. And thanks to special relativity, you could, in principle, skip ahead into the future by traveling at a very high speed relative to your contemporaries. But that, too, would be a one-way trip. As for travel back in time? Some physicists cautiously speculate that it is possible, but only time will tell. In the meantime, here are our top ten favorite fictional time travelers.
10/28/2010 05:54 pm -
Banned Books Week: Why these 10 classics got kicked out of class
Is this is a roundup of objectionable literature – or a Great Books roster? The same titles that some call great literature others find to be filthy, bad, or dangerous. Here are a handful of the often surprising – and sometimes downright baffling – reasons that objectors around the world wanted to ban these books.
09/28/2010 11:30 am -
Channeling my inner Hemingway – or not
'I Write Like,' a hot new website, purports to tell visitors which bestselling authors' work their prose most resembles.
08/02/2010 10:52 am -
Last Night in Twisted River
A life on the lam leads to a career as a novelist in John Irving’s new novel.
11/06/2009 12:00 am -
Classic review: Lamentations of the Father
Ian Frazier – winner of the 2009 Thurber Prize for American Humor – turns his dry wit on everything from parenthood to global warming.
10/11/2009 01:00 am -
Strength in What Remains
Tracy Kidder’s true story about a Tutsi medical student who fled to the US illustrates the power of forgiveness.
08/24/2009 01:00 am -
IndieBound paperback bestseller list
05/27/2009 01:00 am -
The Match King
A biography of Ivar Kreuger – audacious con man and the Bernard Madoff of his era.
05/14/2009 01:00 am
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