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Five facts about Kenzaburo Oe, the Nobel-prize winning Japanese writer who died this month

Oe said interviewing Chairman Mao was “so boring”

Evening Standard

Veterans Day, Kurt Vonnegut, War, Cannabis, PTSD: Some Thoughts To Ponder

Kurt Vonnegut, who would be 100 years old today, never liked the name Veterans Day. He preferred to call it Armistice Day, which marked the end of WWI, a day of peace when an armistice preceded a peace treaty…"a moment," Vonnegut wrote, "when armies stop killing each other."

Benzinga

‘If masterpiece means anything, it means Cat’s Cradle’: the Kurt Vonnegut novels everyone should read

On his centenary, there are many glories to honour, not least Slaughterhouse-Five. But his best book is this pocket epic in which the world ends to the tune of the false religion of Bokononism, thinks John Self

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Shehan Karunatilaka: ‘There’s a Sri Lankan gallows humour… we’ve been through a lot of catastrophes’

The novelist on finding dark farce in his country’s civil war, his grunge band past, and the ‘lottery win’ of the Booker shortlist

The Guardian - UK

How Slaughterhouse-Five Became a Repeated Target of Book Burners

As recently as 2011, a school board in Missouri barred the book from the curriculum and ordered it confined to a special section of the school's library.

Reason

Adam Levin’s latest big, huge novel throws Chicago into a giant sinkhole. After all, he lives in Florida now.

CHICAGO — Adam Levin left Chicago a few years ago and moved to Florida, and if you don’t think that’s hilarious, you should meet Adam Levin. He grew up in Highland Park, taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and for the past decade has been known…

Chicago Tribune

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time review – a satisfyingly intimate profile

Friendship lies at the heart of Robert B Weide’s documentary about the author of Slaughterhouse-Five, filmed over the last 20 years of the writer’s life

The Guardian - UK

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Commentary: Why inappropriate books are the best kind

The house where I was raised had an open shelf rule. This meant my brother and I were allowed to read anything, no matter how inappropriate or beyond our years. We never had to ask.

Los Angeles Times

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time review – novelist gets a heartfelt portrait

Devotion to its subject kept director Robert B Weide from finishing his documentary about the great author, and his love shines through

The Guardian - UK

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