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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....
...George RR Martin’s A Feast for Crows. What books are currently on your bedside table?...
...For Kurt Vonnegut in Mother Night (1961) the message was, “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”...
...“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....
...Nor is there any mention of the vast number of writers he influenced, from Douglas Adams’ madcap intergalactic romps to Martin Amis’ metafictive interpolations of himself into his own books....
...John Taylor Requiem for a Dreamer (CamJazz) The title track’s pensive opening and plangent soprano sax set the scene for this seven-composition suite inspired by the work of Kurt Vonnegut....
...The gig, part of Taylor’s ongoing 65th birthday celebrations, featured his trio of Palle Danielsson on bass and drummer Martin France – they formed in 2004 – and had saxophonist Julian Argüelles guesting...
...Martin, a self-confessed Venetophile, wittily describes the fantasies, snobberies and cultural aspirations that comprise her condition....
...Granted, these images are coated with the patina of nostalgia, but, as Kurt Vonnegut said, so it goes. Another reason is few Americans know any of Blair's likely successors....
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