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...Lily Cole, actor and activistThe Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut The best books I’ve read in the past year are all by Vonnegut....
...Speaking at an Irish advertisers’ awards event in 2017, he recalled the boss, David Ogilvy, who “would prowl around the agency and open people’s drawers to see what was in there....
...Big themes, but Morden tackles them with panache, humour, and a touch of Vonnegut-like absurdity. Jac Jemc’s The Grip of It (Titan Books, RRP£7.99) is, in its way, also about war....
...“And so it goes,” sang Vega, channelling Kurt Vonnegut, and cueing up another guitar solo....
...“When success happens to an English writer,” Martin Amis wrote in the early 1980s in an essay on Kurt Vonnegut, “he acquires a new typewriter....
...He finds solace in a friendship with an elderly neighbour, American widower Mr Peterson, with whom he bonds over a shared love for the novels of Kurt Vonnegut....
...(i) From Kurt Vonnegut’s novella Basic Training, written in the 1940s. (ii) From James Joyce’s children’s story The Cats of Copenhagen, originally written in 1936 for his grandson....
...Vonnegut, Don DeLillo, David Foster Wallace, the poet David Berman. Who would you like to be stuck in a lift with? David Lynch....
...He did just that, first escaping into Dostoevsky and Kurt Vonnegut, then into Tokyo’s underground music scene where he ran the Peter Cat jazz club, and, finally, in his late-30s, to an eight-year stint in...
...Featuring insight from John Thain, Bob Diamond, Rodgin Cohen, David Nason, Bryan Marsal and Pete Peterson....
...and Sculpture by Writers By Donald Friedman Mid-List Press £25, 457 pages FT bookshop price: £20 Little-known work in the visual arts by hundreds of writers – including Kafka, Ibsen, Lawrence, Updike, Vonnegut...
...The irony of David Mitchell inspiring knock-offs is that he himself is a natural literary impressionist....
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