Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

Why we write: the creative processes of the author as a human being

"...This is not a documentary about Kurt Vonnegut...."

Nov. 19, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Kurt Vonnegut, Loud and Clear

Austinite rescues archival interviews

"...with three interviews conducted by Miller and close friend Kurt Vonnegut. Caedmon has just released Essential Vonnegut: Interviews Conducted..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Books Feature by Sofia Resnick

Black a Mental Dwarf Compared to Vonnegut and Vidal

"...Dear Editor, On April 11, 2007, Kurt Vonnegut died. I have been re-reading him in these..."

May 8, 2007 Postmarks

Mother Night

"...Mother Night, the new film rendition of the 1961 Kurt Vonnegut novel. Unfortunately, the movie fails to sustain such..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Breakfast of Champions

"...Henry and Vicki Lewis. As failed screen adaptations of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. novels go, Breakfast of Champions fails in..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Good Eye: Boyhood, Girlhood, Personhood

Lorelei's girlhood in dad's Boyhood

"...exploratory flirting. When she sees that Mason is reading Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, she says, "I think my..."

Feb. 6, 2015 Column by Amy Gentry

Like Shaking Hands With God: A Conversation About Writing

"...by Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Books Review by Ada Calhoun

Outside the Bachs

Classical sounds new when Austin artists do the composing

"...Description of an Insane Mind From Mother Night, by Kurt Vonnegut (cello/bass duet, premiered Nov. 8, 2008; Alamo Drafthouse..."

May 1, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Science Delusion

White takes aim at the bold targets of Richard Dawkins and Jonah Lehrer and their ilk

"...reviewer, missing whatever more clever and evenhanded scrutiny that Kurt Vonnegut, say, might've provided here once upon a time...."

May 17, 2013 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Q&A Hole: What's Your Favorite Book Of All Time? (Part 2)

With Tim Doyle, Amparo Garcia-Crow, Kareem Badr, and more

"...book of all time by far is Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. I read it when I was probably eighteen,..."

Jan. 14, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Preaching to the Choir

Quiet Company high priest Taylor Muse still has faith all right. It's called trust.

"...After discovering authors like Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Robbins in his early 20s, he..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Music Feature by Dan Solomon

Trixie

"...whether to himself by adapting a digression-heavy novel like Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions or to the audience with..."

July 21, 2000 Movie Review by Bryan Poyser

Going All the Way

"...adapted the screenplay from his popular 1970 novel, which Kurt Vonnegut once declared to be “the Midwestern Catcher in..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, September 8-14

"...SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio novelist Kurt Vonnegut testified, "I want to stay as close on..."

Sept. 8, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

The Q&A Hole: What Got You Hooked On the Weird Stuff?

Waiting for the manlike creature with the glowing eyes

"...Robert E. Howard's Conan of Cimmeria, as an 11-year-old; Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, as a 14-year-old; and J.G. Ballard's Crash..."

July 13, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Lissa Hattersley's Top 7 Greezy Wheels

"..."It was basically about karma but inspired by a Kurt Vonnegut story. One time we played the Bottom Line..."

June 12, 2009 Music Feature

The Year in Books

What New Book Did You Most Enjoy in 1998 and Why?

"...Stuart Wade: Kurt Vonnegut's intentionally unfinished farewell Timequake. Nowhere close to his..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Books Feature

Lunch-box Chronicles

"...am reminded of a critique I once aimed at Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s Breakfast of Champions. As I read his..."

April 10, 1998 Books Feature

Ring in the HollyDaze

Holiday Movie Previews

"...D: Alexander Payne; with Laura Dern, Swoosie Kurtz, Kurtwood Smith, Mary Kay Place, Kelly Preston, Burt Reynolds...."

Nov. 29, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Invasion of the Lit Flix

Literary Classics Rush the Screen

"...Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, and Nell Carter. In Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night, an American spy poses as a..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fall Movie Round-Up

Sneaking Into Autumn

"...Nick Nolte stars in this screen adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's 1962 novel about an American spy posing as..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Review: Juan Luís Jardí’s “Tiempo Sostenido” Clocks in With Eerie Power

The Barcelona-based artist is doing time at Wally Workman Gallery

"...Unlike Billy Pilgrim, the protagonist of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, the Barcelona-based artist Juan Luís Jardí has..."

Feb. 16, 2024 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, November 26 - December 2

"...TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author Kurt Vonnegut wrote wistfully, "I still catch myself feeling sad..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Fantasia Review: Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist

An overdue tribute to one of the greats of animation

"...narratively, but also from dozens of other influences, from Kurt Vonnegut to John Ford...."

Aug. 2, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Opinion: To Prepare for Future Shocks, Austin Must Get Weirder

Becoming truly weird means becoming a futurist, argues Jake Dunagan

"...institutions of democracy at bay. These shocks, to paraphrase Kurt Vonnegut, can only prepare us to be shocked yet..."

May 22, 2020 Column by Jake Dunagan

The Persistence of Vision Podcast Books Your Life Up Right

Austin-based audio series brings lively lit-talk from local lights

"...will do you up right. There's Owen Egerton on Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, Web Jerome on George R.R...."

March 16, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Deer

"...harm. Likewise, "Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt" tributes Kurt Vonnegut's anti-war standard Slaughterhouse-Five. In a spacier second half,..."

Nov. 22, 2019 Music Review by Rachel Rascoe

Paul Thomas Anderson on His Friendship With Jonathan Demme

Phantom Thread director to receive Texas Film Award

"...for an episode of American Playhouse (an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's "Who Am I This Time?") and again in..."

March 2, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

David Lowery on His Haunting New Film A Ghost Story

Casey Affleck plays a spirit unstuck in time

"...C becoming "unstuck in time," a phrase "stolen from Kurt Vonnegut entirely because it means so much to me."..."

July 14, 2017 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

The Difficulties of Dining With Kids

Is the restaurant industry making a bad situation worse?

"...human beings – we should take the advice of Kurt Vonnegut, who wrote in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater,..."

March 3, 2017 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

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