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DARK SECRETS: Kurt vonnegut | Vintage Vibes

More than 50 years after a North Dakota school district burned copies of Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Slaughterhouse-Five,’ the anti-war novel is still being censored

Bruce Severy, a full-bearded, idealistic 26-year-old, moved from Southern California in 1973 to the small town of Drake, North Dakota, where he had accepted a job teaching English at the public high school. He, his small family and their menagerie of pets settled into a large, white frame house across…

The Conversation · Oct 2

Quote of the Day Kurt Vonnegut: 'How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full...' - Why do we seek emotional relief? American author’s deep words on modern burnout

Modern life's constant demands can lead to emotional detachment and numbness. Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" explores this desire for emotional respite. His quote highlights the quiet wish to feel nothing yet appear functional. This reflects a profound critique of contemporary exhaustion and trauma. The lesson emphasizes living fully over mere survival.

The Economic Times · Aug 23

Disclosure Day Ending Explained: Why The Movie Ends On One Specific Word

According to the movie's screenwriter.

Cinemablend · Jun 13

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Ruth Ozeki: ‘All my books are an attempt to recreate Charlotte’s Web’

The US author, film-maker and Zen Buddhist priest on smart young girls, the difference between irony and cynicism, and working her way through 13 volumes of Chekhov

The Guardian - UK · Jun 12

All These Years Later, And I'm Still Amazed That Everything Everywhere All At Once Was Such A Hit. Here's Why

Hot dog fingers forever.

Cinemablend · May 19

67 Years Later, One Apple TV Sci-Fi Easter Egg Is Deeper Than You Think

How a satirical sci-fi masterpiece fits into a very serious sci-fi epic. Here's the connection between Kurt Vonnegut's 'The Sirens of Titan' and the 'For All Mankind' episode of the same name.

Inverse · May 11

Colin Jost Talks About Hurting People's Feelings With Saturday Night Live Impressions

It's in moments like these where we must turn to Kurt Vonnegut.

Cinemablend · Apr 20

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I’ll admit it; I’ve become a late-in-life semicolon lover

Vonnegut hated them and Lincoln thought them ‘useful little chaps’. I, meanwhile, have come round to the charms of this controversial punctuation mark after years on the fence, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK · Sep 24, 2025

10 Sci-Fi Books About Post-Human Evolution

Humanity needs a makeover.

The Mary Sue · Sep 18, 2025

Texas judge blocks Ten Commandments in public schools with epic ruling that quotes Sonny & Cher, Kurt Vonnegut and Billy Graham

Several GOP-led states launch First Amendment battle to knock down firewall between church and state

The Independent UK · Aug 20, 2025

10 Sci-Fi Books Where Humanity Doesn’t Survive

The seven day forecast: total annihilation.

The Mary Sue · Aug 6, 2025

The 10 Best Sci-Fi Books About Time Travel (For When You’re Bored of Today)

Think today's problems will be solved tomorrow? Think again.

The Mary Sue · Jul 30, 2025

The 10 Saddest Sci-Fi Books of All Time

Better tomorrows? These authors think otherwise.

The Mary Sue · Jul 15, 2025

Folks Online List 28 Books That Blew Their Minds And Changed Their Lives

We should never underestimate reading because it can change your life as it did for people on Reddit who shared the names of the most impactful books they've ever read.

Bored Panda · Jul 14, 2025

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The Mary Sue · Jun 6, 2025

The 10 Best Classic Sci-Fi Books (That Still Hold Up)

When it comes to classic literature, the classics can be hit or miss. Sometimes a “classic” is groundbreaking novel that truly stands the test of time, other times it’s a book that reads like something you Sparknotes’d your way through in high school English. While not every novel hailed as…

The Independent UK · May 22, 2025

Voices: ‘I want to scream’: Readers rage over grammar gone wrong

YOUR VIEWS: From the relevance of semicolons to confusion over their, there, and they’re, our community have been discussing their biggest grammar gripes

The Conversation · May 21, 2025

Semicolons are becoming increasingly rare; their disappearance should be resisted

A recent study has found a 50% decline in the use of semicolons over the last two decades. The decline accelerates a longterm trend:

The Independent UK · May 20, 2025

Our best punctuation mark is dying out; people need to learn how to use it

IN FOCUS: The poor, misunderstood semicolon is under threat. Helen Coffey laments its decline and makes the case for re-educating ourselves on its usefulness as the chicest grammatical tool

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The Guardian - UK · May 18, 2025

Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests

Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it

The Guardian - UK · Apr 4, 2025

When the Going Was Good by Graydon Carter review – juicy stories from the heydey of magazines

From Anna Wintour’s table manners to Oscar party hijinks, the former editor of Vanity Fair tells all

PC Gamer · Feb 15, 2025

Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game is back in stores after 70 years of obscurity and one sold-out print run

GHQ is a wargame—of sorts.

Pedestrian.tv · Dec 30, 2024

Here’s Which Books You Should Read At Sydney’s Iconic Swimming Spots For Bookworm Baddie Energy

Nothing like the smell of ocean breeze, sunscreen and a fresh book.

The Guardian - UK · Nov 24, 2024

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze by William Saroyan review – vividly crafted Depression-era tales

The US author’s debut collection from 1934 focuses on impoverished individuals in precarious times using language that is punchy and full of compassion

The Guardian - US · Nov 13, 2024

Florida officials report hundreds of books removed from schools

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Normal People by Sally Rooney and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, among books pulled

The Guardian - UK · May 6, 2024

‘I thought it was a speech by Kurt Vonnegut’: Baz Luhrmann on making Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

‘Some kid had credited a column of life advice in the Chicago Tribune to the writer of Slaughterhouse-Five. It then spread on a new invention called the world wide web. I thought it would make a great spoken word song’

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