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Tag: Kurt Vonnegut

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What Would Vonnegut Say About Cryptocurrency?

20 Feb 202121 Feb 2021
Or: God Bless You, Mr. Musk This is a question I keep asking myself: what would Kurt Vonnegut think of Bitcoin? Would he prefer Ethereum? Would he see the humor…
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Some takes on 2017, before it ends

30 Dec 201731 Dec 2017
The end of 2017 is nigh. And with it, the top ten lists, the retrospectives, the predictions. Rather than the Top Books Published in 2017 or the Best Films of…
Batman…

Sick of Reboots, Sequels, and Extended Universes? Blame Classic Literature

25 Jun 20173 Nov 2021
We find ourselves in the midst of another summer and with it, an endless brigade of sequels, prequels, reboots, requels, and the ongoing march of extended cinematic universes. A new…
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How to Finally Start Reading Kurt Vonnegut Novels

11 Nov 201614 Feb 2023
A Beginner's Guide & Recommended Vonnegut Reading Order, Including which are "the best" Vonnegut books There has never been a better time to start reading Kurt Vonnegut. To begin with,…
2016 Election…

What Would Kurt Vonnegut Say About the 2016 Election?

29 Sep 20161 Oct 2016
Or, When Did We Start Living in a Fictional Satire? I've compared recent events—and, in particular, this presidential election—to many things: Armageddon, Alien, every Batman story, and almost every '90s action movie.…
American Psycho…

What Should Mr. Robot Pay Homage to in Season Two?

1 Jul 20167 Jul 2016
The critically-acclaimed, award-winning cable series Mr. Robot is notable for a number of reasons, with a big twist: in the final two episodes, you realize you've been watching a ten hour…
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Why Everyone Should Calm Down and Take Vonnegut’s Approach to Talking about Big Game Hunting

30 Jul 201526 Sep 2016
People love to shame these days. They also love to shame the shamers. And with the tendency for the internet to get hysterical about anything that seems worthy of hysteria,…

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