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Apr 28, 2023 · The story of the racehorse. As told by Mark Vonnegut in the book Armageddon in Retrospect, it goes like this: “He often said he had to be a writer because he wasn’t good at anything else. He ...
May 13, 2024 · In it, Heller, perhaps poking fun at Vonnegut, asks him how it feels to have met someone the previous day who has made more money than Vonnegut’s novel has made in its lifetime.
Jul 14, 2023 · But in the 1960s, Heller and Kurt Vonnegut separately published two classics — Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), which draws on Vonnegut’s experience of the Dresden bombing — that ...
Originally published in The New Yorker on May 16th, 2005. Close friends Vonnegut and Heller were both black humorists and World War II veterans. Vonnegut survived the Allied bombing of Dresden ...
Jun 4, 2019 · The late novelist Kurt Vonnegut informed his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responded – “Yes, but I have something he will never have . . . enough.”. Fittingly, John Bogle titled his ...
May 25, 2014 · Like Vonnegut’s, Heller’s writing was affected by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961), an “important” novelist with a decisive first book, whose anti-Semitism (an insistent aspect of a ...
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Dec 8, 2013 · They were witty, candid, and open about their experiences with war, love, Hollywood, sex, critics. So I wrote My Friendship with Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller ( Amazon) in memory of these great literary figures. Kurt gave me three interviews and I felt like one of his students, humbled at his knees. Why an 84-year-old Kurt Vonnegut, a ...
