Alex Schmidt and Michael Swaim, the original Kurt Vonneguys, are back to break down the new nonfiction book 'The Writer's Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five'! If this isn't nice, what is?
The book is written by Tom Roston, and published by Abrams Books: https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/writers-crusade_9781419744891/
Vonneguys news: this is our last episode of this new run. Thank you all so much for re-forming this karass for another round of Vonne-joy.
Enjoy Michael's new show 'Like Razorblade Pie' at Small Beans: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans
Enjoy Alex's show 'Secretly Incredibly Fascinating': https://linktr.ee/sifpod
SEGMENTS:
Franken-Time (00:02:35)
Summary Time (00:13:10)
The Meat (00:36:15)
Tom Rosto-grades (01:07:25)
Related Reading (01:10:30)
Vonnegut News (01:17:35)
LINKS for Related Reading:
'The Things They Carried' by Tim O'Brien: https://www.arts.gov/initiatives/nea-big-read/things-they-carried
"Ahab’s gift: Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and the meaning of pain" by Xi Chen: https://hekint.org/2020/06/23/ahabs-gift-herman-melvilles-moby-dick-and-the-meaning-of-pain/
The Autobiography Of Mark Twain: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520267190/autobiography-of-mark-twain-volume-1
LINKS for background about this book:
'Kurt Vonnegut: Letters', edited by Dan Wakefield: https://bookshop.org/books/kurt-vonnegut-letters/9780385343763
Tom Roston's website: https://tomroston.com/
'The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York' by Tom Roston: https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/most-spectacular-restaurant-in-the-world_9781419737992/
'I Lost it at the Video Store: A Filmmakers' Oral History of a Vanished Era' by Tom Roston: https://books.google.com/books/about/I_Lost_it_at_the_Video_Store.html?id=TpzmsgEACAAJ
Review from Kirkus Reviews: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/tom-roston/the-writers-crusade/
Review from Publishers Weekly: https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4197-4489-1
Full spreadsheet of Alex & Michael's "Vonnegrades" plus other grades: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F2juhwV4ia1MzdQC8krE0yiV9e7rdrpkbMguGL037uo/edit?usp=sharing
Homepage for the Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library: http://kvml.org/
Their next annual 'Night Of Vonnegut' is April 10th, 2022.
Kurt Vonnegut's 100th birthday would've been November 11th, 2022.
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Alex Schmidt and Michael Swaim, the original Kurt Vonneguys, are back to break down the new nonfiction book 'The Writer's Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five'! If this isn't nice, what is?
The book is written by Tom Roston, and published by Abrams Books: https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/writers-crusade_9781419744891/
Vonneguys news: this is our last episode of this new run. Thank you all so much for re-forming this karass for another round of Vonne-joy.
Enjoy Michael's new show 'Like Razorblade Pie' at Small Beans: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans
Enjoy Alex's show 'Secretly Incredibly Fascinating': https://linktr.ee/sifpod
SEGMENTS:
Franken-Time (00:02:35)
Summary Time (00:13:10)
The Meat (00:36:15)
Tom Rosto-grades (01:07:25)
Related Reading (01:10:30)
Vonnegut News (01:17:35)
LINKS for Related Reading:
'The Things They Carried' by Tim O'Brien: https://www.arts.gov/initiatives/nea-big-read/things-they-carried
"Ahab’s gift: Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and the meaning of pain" by Xi Chen: https://hekint.org/2020/06/23/ahabs-gift-herman-melvilles-moby-dick-and-the-meaning-of-pain/
The Autobiography Of Mark Twain: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520267190/autobiography-of-mark-twain-volume-1
LINKS for background about this book:
'Kurt Vonnegut: Letters', edited by Dan Wakefield: https://bookshop.org/books/kurt-vonnegut-letters/9780385343763
Tom Roston's website: https://tomroston.com/
'The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York' by Tom Roston: https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/most-spectacular-restaurant-in-the-world_9781419737992/
'I Lost it at the Video Store: A Filmmakers' Oral History of a Vanished Era' by Tom Roston: https://books.google.com/books/about/I_Lost_it_at_the_Video_Store.html?id=TpzmsgEACAAJ
Review from Kirkus Reviews: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/tom-roston/the-writers-crusade/
Review from Publishers Weekly: https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4197-4489-1
Full spreadsheet of Alex & Michael's "Vonnegrades" plus other grades: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F2juhwV4ia1MzdQC8krE0yiV9e7rdrpkbMguGL037uo/edit?usp=sharing
Homepage for the Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library: http://kvml.org/
Their next annual 'Night Of Vonnegut' is April 10th, 2022.
Kurt Vonnegut's 100th birthday would've been November 11th, 2022.
Segments:
Story/Essay Time (00:00:30)
Kurt Blurt (01:19:30)
VonneWHAT (01:27:00)
Kurt Blurt, Part II (01:34:30)
The Meat (01:44:30)
VonneGRADES (01:45:40)
Related Reading (01:47:30)
Kurt Vonnegut's Personal Library of Related Recommended Things For You to Read (01:52:10)
Vonnegut News (01:59:20)
Related Reading:
Book: Sherman Alexie:The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian: https://goo.gl/prPzP4
Speech: Mary Schmich: Wear Sunscreen: https://goo.gl/zs12n
Speech: David Foster Wallace: This is Water: https://goo.gl/XMEqj
Kurt Vonnegut's Reccomendations:
Full Text: Edgar Lee Masters: Spoon River Anthology: https://goo.gl/qBpVMv
Book: USA (The 42nd Parallel, 1919, The Big Money): John Dos Passos: https://goo.gl/ofoFOi
Full Text: Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary: https://goo.gl/JthcXb
Full Text: King Henry VI, Pt III: https://goo.gl/5SlCET
Book: Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: https://goo.gl/bWvTDN
Kurt Vonneguys
Alex Schmidt and Michael Swaim, the original Kurt Vonneguys, are back to break down the new nonfiction book 'The Writer's Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five'! If this isn't nice, what is?
The book is written by Tom Roston, and published by Abrams Books: https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/writers-crusade_9781419744891/
Vonneguys news: this is our last episode of this new run. Thank you all so much for re-forming this karass for another round of Vonne-joy.
Enjoy Michael's new show 'Like Razorblade Pie' at Small Beans: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans
Enjoy Alex's show 'Secretly Incredibly Fascinating': https://linktr.ee/sifpod
SEGMENTS:
Franken-Time (00:02:35)
Summary Time (00:13:10)
The Meat (00:36:15)
Tom Rosto-grades (01:07:25)
Related Reading (01:10:30)
Vonnegut News (01:17:35)
LINKS for Related Reading:
'The Things They Carried' by Tim O'Brien: https://www.arts.gov/initiatives/nea-big-read/things-they-carried
"Ahab’s gift: Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and the meaning of pain" by Xi Chen: https://hekint.org/2020/06/23/ahabs-gift-herman-melvilles-moby-dick-and-the-meaning-of-pain/
The Autobiography Of Mark Twain: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520267190/autobiography-of-mark-twain-volume-1
LINKS for background about this book:
'Kurt Vonnegut: Letters', edited by Dan Wakefield: https://bookshop.org/books/kurt-vonnegut-letters/9780385343763
Tom Roston's website: https://tomroston.com/
'The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York' by Tom Roston: https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/most-spectacular-restaurant-in-the-world_9781419737992/
'I Lost it at the Video Store: A Filmmakers' Oral History of a Vanished Era' by Tom Roston: https://books.google.com/books/about/I_Lost_it_at_the_Video_Store.html?id=TpzmsgEACAAJ
Review from Kirkus Reviews: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/tom-roston/the-writers-crusade/
Review from Publishers Weekly: https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4197-4489-1
Full spreadsheet of Alex & Michael's "Vonnegrades" plus other grades: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F2juhwV4ia1MzdQC8krE0yiV9e7rdrpkbMguGL037uo/edit?usp=sharing
Homepage for the Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library: http://kvml.org/
Their next annual 'Night Of Vonnegut' is April 10th, 2022.
Kurt Vonnegut's 100th birthday would've been November 11th, 2022.
