Alex Schmidt and Michael Swaim, the original Kurt Vonneguys, are back to break down the new 'Slaughterhouse-Five' graphic novel! If this isn't nice, what is?

The graphic novel is by writer Ryan North and artist Albert Monteys. Publisher page: https://shop.boom-studios.com/collections/slaughterhouse-five

Also here's a link to a *VIDEO VERSION* of this podcast episode (it's the same audio, plus some photos of what we're talking about): https://youtu.be/5BghQzkY0iE

Vonneguys news: we're returning once more, in 2022, for a new episode about 'The Writer's Crusade' by Tom Roston. Find out more about that book here: https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/writers-crusade_9781419744891/

SEGMENTS:
Franken-Time (00:03:55)
Plot Time (00:24:55)
Kurt Blurt Redux (00:43:45)
Recurring Characters Redux (00:51:45)
Kurt Cameo Redux (00:58:05)
VonneWHAT Redux (01:00:30)
The Meat (01:04:20)
Ryan North and Albert Monteys-grades (01:17:25)
Related Reading (01:21:25)
Vonnegut News (01:26:00)

LINKS for Related Reading:
'Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid On Earth' by Chris Ware: https://bookshop.org/books/jimmy-corrigan-the-smartest-kid-on-earth/9780375714542
'Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards' by Jim Ottaviani and Big Time Attic: https://bookshop.org/books/bone-sharps-cowboys-and-thunder-lizards/9780966010664
Quote from Tennessee Williams: https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/07/30/tennessee-williams-love/
'Synedcoche, New York' (2008 movie): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383028/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

LINKS for background about this graphic novel:
ComicsBeat.com interview with Ryan North: https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-adapting-slaughterhouse-five-with-ryan-north/
Publisher interview with Ryan North and Albert Monteys: https://youtu.be/BU5xv4AhoCc
Article about Albert Monteys leaving 'El Jueves' over censorship: https://www.thelocal.es/20140606/spanish-comic-censored-jueves-king-joke/
Image Comics page for the 'Solid State' graphic novel by Jonathan Coulton, Matt Fraction, and Albert Monteys: https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/solid-state
Vox.com article citing new Dresden statistics: https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/3/31/18287062/slaughterhouse-five-50th-anniversary-kurt-vonnegut
January 2018 'Dinosaur Comics' strip that quotes 'Slaughterhouse-Five': https://qwantz.com/index.php?comic=3236
August 2021 news from Deadline.com on Noah Hawley's adaptation of 'Cat's Cradle': https://deadline.com/2021/08/noah-hawley-cats-cradle-not-moving-forward-at-fx-tca-1234814354/
Review from The AV Club: https://www.avclub.com/slaughterhouse-five-is-a-near-flawless-adaptation-that-1845419158
Review from Polygon: https://www.polygon.com/comics/2020/9/15/21438090/slaughterhouse-five-comic-graphic-novel-kurt-vonnegut-ryan-north-albert-monteys
Review from MonkeysFightingRobots.co: https://monkeysfightingrobots.co/review-slaughterhouse-five-is-a-perfect-graphic-novel-adaptation/

LINK to a Google Sheet with all of Alex and Michael's past Vonnegrades: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F2juhwV4ia1MzdQC8krE0yiV9e7rdrpkbMguGL037uo/edit?usp=sharing

Slaughterhouse-Five (graphic novel)

Alex Schmidt and Michael Swaim, the original Kurt Vonneguys, are back to break down the new documentary 'Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time'! If this isn't nice, what is?

The documentary is by co-directors Robert B. Weide and Don Argott. Here's its website and how to watch: https://www.vonnegutmovie.com/

Vonneguys news: we're still returning once more, in 2022, for an episode about 'The Writer's Crusade' by Tom Roston. Find out more about that book here: www.abramsbooks.com/product/writers…_9781419744891/

SEGMENTS:
Franken-Time (00:02:15)
Summary Time (00:26:00)
Highlight Reel (00:37:57)
Vonne-MEH (00:56:30)
The Meat (01:03:55)
Robert B. Weide-grades (01:17:15)
Related Reading (01:22:45)
Vonnegut News (01:35:07)

LINKS for Related Reading:
'Life Itself' documentary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2382298/
'Meeting People Is Easy' documentary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195909/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
'Too Funny To Fail' documentary, streaming on Hulu: https://www.hulu.com/movie/too-funny-to-fail-the-life-death-of-the-dana-carvey-show-c6c29995-0c40-4442-aed6-156bd11e2d9e
'The Brothers Vonnegut' by Ginger Strand: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374536534
'The Century Of The Self' documentary series: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432232/

LINKS for background about this documentary:
Library Of America interview with Robert B. Weide: https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/1917-kurt-vonnegut-at-100-with-robert-weide
transcript of the "Why a duck?" scene in 'The Cocoanuts' (1929): https://www.marx-brothers.org/whyaduck/info/movies/scenes/whyaduck.htm
IMDb listings for Robert B. Weide: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004332/?ref_=tt_ov_wr
IMDB listings for Don Argott: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0034531/?ref_=tt_ov_dr
'Kurt Vonnegut: Letters', edited by Dan Wakefield: https://bookshop.org/books/kurt-vonnegut-letters/9780385343763
'The Brothers Vonnegut' by Ginger Strand: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374536534
Review from RogerEbert.com: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/kurt-vonnegut-unstuck-in-time-movie-review-2021
Review from Variety: https://variety.com/2021/film/reviews/kurt-vonnegut-unstuck-in-time-review-robert-b-weide-1235115093/
Review from NPR: https://www.npr.org/2021/11/17/1056477983/kurt-vonnegut-unstuck-in-time-remains-faithful-to-the-authors-spirit
Review from the Los Angeles Times: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-11-18/review-kurt-vonnegut-unstuck-in-time-robert-b-weide-don-argott

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time

Alex Schmidt and Michael Swaim, the original Kurt Vonneguys, are back to break down the new nonfiction book 'The Writer's Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five'! If this isn't nice, what is?

The book is written by Tom Roston, and published by Abrams Books: https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/writers-crusade_9781419744891/

Vonneguys news: this is our last episode of this new run. Thank you all so much for re-forming this karass for another round of Vonne-joy.
Enjoy Michael's new show 'Like Razorblade Pie' at Small Beans: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans
Enjoy Alex's show 'Secretly Incredibly Fascinating': https://linktr.ee/sifpod

SEGMENTS:
Franken-Time (00:02:35)
Summary Time (00:13:10)
The Meat (00:36:15)
Tom Rosto-grades (01:07:25)
Related Reading (01:10:30)
Vonnegut News (01:17:35)

LINKS for Related Reading:
'The Things They Carried' by Tim O'Brien: https://www.arts.gov/initiatives/nea-big-read/things-they-carried
"Ahab’s gift: Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and the meaning of pain" by Xi Chen: https://hekint.org/2020/06/23/ahabs-gift-herman-melvilles-moby-dick-and-the-meaning-of-pain/
The Autobiography Of Mark Twain: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520267190/autobiography-of-mark-twain-volume-1

LINKS for background about this book:
'Kurt Vonnegut: Letters', edited by Dan Wakefield: https://bookshop.org/books/kurt-vonnegut-letters/9780385343763
Tom Roston's website: https://tomroston.com/
'The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York' by Tom Roston: https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/most-spectacular-restaurant-in-the-world_9781419737992/
'I Lost it at the Video Store: A Filmmakers' Oral History of a Vanished Era' by Tom Roston: https://books.google.com/books/about/I_Lost_it_at_the_Video_Store.html?id=TpzmsgEACAAJ
Review from Kirkus Reviews: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/tom-roston/the-writers-crusade/
Review from Publishers Weekly: https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4197-4489-1

Full spreadsheet of Alex & Michael's "Vonnegrades" plus other grades: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F2juhwV4ia1MzdQC8krE0yiV9e7rdrpkbMguGL037uo/edit?usp=sharing

Homepage for the Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library: http://kvml.org/
Their next annual 'Night Of Vonnegut' is April 10th, 2022.
Kurt Vonnegut's 100th birthday would've been November 11th, 2022.

The Writer's Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five

Stay tuned for the first two episodes of Kurt Vonneguys, covering 'Player Piano' and 'The Sirens of Titan', premiering soon.

Episode 0 - The Kurt Vonneguys are Coming!

Join reader-comedians Alex Schmidt and Michael Swaim for a fun, digressive trip through the Kurt Vonnegut canon. It’s a book club, a comedy show, and a cavalcade of smart, entertaining segments. Discover Vonnegut works you’ve never read! Rediscover your Kurt favorites! And cure the terrible disease of loneliness by going on a K.V. appreciation deep dive with a friendly karass of your fellow listeners.

(00:00) Player Piano
(12:20) Kurt Blurt
(20:20) 1984?
(36:45) Kurt Cameo
(42:50) Recurring Characters
(59:30) Image-O-Rama
(1:05:00) VonneWHAT?
(1:11:50) Related Reading

Related Reading:

The Silver Corridor & "Repent Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman -- Harlan Ellison: https://goo.gl/7NK9Pu

Knox -- Harlan Ellison: https://goo.gl/NlwI03

The Veldt -- Ray Bradbury: https://goo.gl/ihH8r9

The Caves of Steel -- Isaac Asimov: https://goo.gl/8uA6TQ

Player Piano

(00:00) The Sirens of Titan
(07:00) Plot Time!
(50:30) Recurring Characters
(56:30) VonneWHAT?
(1:04:00) Kurt Blurt
(1:13:00) Related Reading
(1:28:30) Movie Time
(1:44:00) Kurt News

Related Reading: 

Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons: https://goo.gl/Tuo0UJ

V for Vendetta -- Alan Moore & David Lloyd: https://goo.gl/yYGwhM

Speaker for the Dead -- Orson Scott Card: https://goo.gl/QUiIA5

Dark They Were and Golden Eyed -- Ray Bradbury: https://goo.gl/xFKAeA

Mozart in Mirrorshades -- Bruce Sterling & Lewis Shiner: https://goo.gl/BCNgfs

The Stranger -- Albert Camus: https://goo.gl/ppBtSI

Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein: https://goo.gl/S1vr3K

The Sirens of Titan

Mother Night (00:00)
Kurt Cameo (03:50)
Plot Time (11:45)
Recurring Characters (32:30)
The Meat (01:12:30)
VonneWHAT (01:16:00)
Kurt Blurt (01:21:15)
Vonnegrades (01:27:50)
Related Reading (01:29:50)
Movie Time (01:36:30)
Kurt News (01:45:30)

Mother Night

From the Group! (01:00)

Plot Time! (07:45)

Kurt Blurt! (11:40)

Kurt Cameo! (1:53:20)

Recurring Characters! (1:54:40)

VonneWHAT! (1:57:15)

The Meat! (2:07:15)

VonneGrades! (2:12:20)

Movie Time! (2:16:00)

Related Reading! (2:26:10)

Vocab Quiz! (2:33:50)

Vonnegut News! (2:37:00)


Related Reading:

Article: Scientific American: Let's Colonize Titan: https://goo.gl/KP4dx0

Song: 10cc - Sand in My Face (Dynamic Tension): https://goo.gl/S0UbEP

Movie: Synecdoche, New York: https://goo.gl/h6AV1Z

Book: Ginger Strand - The Brothers Vonnegut: https://goo.gl/zIYN0X

Short Story: Ray Bradbury - The Fire Balloons (in The Illustrated Man): https://goo.gl/ihH8r9

Book: Will Self - The Book of Dave: https://goo.gl/ApmVV4

Song: Ambrosia - Nice Nice Very Nice: https://goo.gl/m6xlA3

Short Story: Harlan Ellison - The Deathbird (in Deathbird Stories): https://goo.gl/neeVyS

Short Story: Harlan Ellison - The Executioner of Malformed Children (in Shatterday): https://goo.gl/b1koGV

Book: Robert Heinlein - The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag: https://goo.gl/fdU6RM

Book: John Brunner - The Traveler in Black: https://goo.gl/unBNQG

Book: Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale: https://goo.gl/Sf4rdn

Book: Lois Lowry - The Giver: https://goo.gl/1PPIWv

Music: Ice-9 Ballads: https://goo.gl/CQc5jS

Cat's Cradle

From the Group! (01:00)

Plot Time! (06:45)

Kurt Blurt! (01:34:45)

Recurring Characters Update! (01:52:00)

Kurt Cameo! (01:59:30)

VonneWHAT! (02:00:30)

The Meat! (02:08:10)

Altruism Olympics! (02:11:50)

Vonnegrades! (02:15:15)

Movie Time! (02:17:10)

Related Reading! (02:21:00)

Vonnegut News! (02:28:20)

Related Reading:

Book: Theodore Sturgeon: Microcosmic God: https://goo.gl/tTYkXd

Essay: James Black: What in Hell Is He For?: Vonnegut's Avatar & the Need to Sneak Sci-Fi in Under the Radar: https://goo.gl/cKvjq2

Short Story: Ray Bradbury: The Taxpayer (in The Martian Chronicles): https://goo.gl/uA719G

Short Story: Harlan Ellison: On the Slab (in Angry Candy): https://goo.gl/zWBtm3

Short Story: David Brin: "The Giving Plague": https://goo.gl/e6bXug

Book: David Brin: The Practice Effect: https://goo.gl/3zFce6

Graphic Novel: Warren Ellis: Transmetropolitan: https://goo.gl/nQr6sT

Book: Robert Lynn Asprin: The Cold Cash War: https://goo.gl/MxVZI7

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Super Short Story Plot Time! (06:15)

Recurring Characters Update! (01:54:30)

Kurt Cameo! (01:55:55)

VonneWHAAAT! (01:57:00)

Kurt Blurt! (02:05:30)

Vonnegrades! (02:11:00)

Related Reading! (02:12:45)

Vonnegut News! (02:21:00)

Related Reading:

Book: Marc Leeds: The Vonnegut Encyclopedia: https://goo.gl/tu8S4W

Book: Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man: https://goo.gl/ihH8r9

Book: George Saunders: CivilWarLand in Bad Decline: https://goo.gl/01l2O8

Book: Charles Yu: Sorry Please Thank You: https://goo.gl/JJ9AAG

Book: Eric Puchner: Music Through the Floor: https://goo.gl/S5YgOY

Short Story: Harlan Ellison: "The End of the Time of Leinard" (in Dream Corridor): https://goo.gl/QZWi1H

Short Story: Harlan Ellison: "How's the Night Life on Cissalda?" (in Shatterday): https://goo.gl/b1koGV

Short Story: Michael Swaim: "Cost of Living": https://goo.gl/LLivV0

Welcome to the Monkey House

Sections:

Gettin' Social! (02:15)

Emergency Situation! (27:20)

Meet Space! (41:00)

Related Reading:

Novel: Jamaica Kincaid: A Small Place: https://goo.gl/jxJQCI

Novel: Haruki Murakami: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: https://goo.gl/M4Eo8g

Film: Harrison Bergeron: https://goo.gl/jtIVDt

Film: 2081: https://goo.gl/xZgOGF

Film: Who Am I This Time?: https://goo.gl/h9sdju

Podcast: Limetown: https://goo.gl/z2p59C

Music: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Musical Demos: https://goo.gl/RNGnwU

Radio: Dimension X: Report on the Barnhouse Effect: https://goo.gl/Srrcyl

Novel: Jerry Spinelli: Maniac Magee: https://goo.gl/N0IpjK

Novel: Lois Lowry: Gathering Blue: https://goo.gl/EmRjI9

Short Story: Cordwainer Smith: "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard" (in The Rediscovery of Man): https://goo.gl/MJqiwx

Book: Kurt Vonnegut: Drawings: https://goo.gl/CV7oTM

From The Group: 'Player Piano' to 'Monkey House'

Plot Time! (01:10)

Kurt Blurt! (55:30)

Recurring Characters Update! (01:31:00)

Kurt Cameo! (01:39:20)

VonneWHAT?! (01:42:00)

VonneART! (01:52:15)

The Meat! (01:55:45)

Vonnegrades! (01:57:00)

Movie Time! (02:01:40)

Related Reading! (02:07:50)

Vonnegut News! (02:17:10)

Related Reading:

Film: Grave of the Fireflies: https://goo.gl/V6xGcF

Film: Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story : https://goo.gl/gWFjlH

Film: Arrival: https://goo.gl/c8DmrG

Short Story: Ray Bradbury: "Tomorrow's Child" (in I Sing the Body Electric!): https://goo.gl/zQuv1B

Album: Roger Waters: Radio Kaos: https://goo.gl/x1rx05

Graphic Novel: Yoshihiro Tatsumi: The Pushman and Other Stories: https://goo.gl/nTpYca

Short Story: Harlan Ellison: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: https://goo.gl/NBaa18

Preface: George Saunders: "Introduction to Huckleberry Finn" (in The Braindead Megaphone): https://goo.gl/mr1ydG

Short Story: Elie Weisel: "Night": https://goo.gl/jsGqyg

Novel: Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow: https://goo.gl/0s9wEW

Graphic Novel: Art Spiegleman: Maus: https://goo.gl/VqiDe6

Article: Nautilus Magazine: The Exotic Matter States Behind PCs, Visual Displays, and the Future of Water: https://goo.gl/2W5exV

Slaughterhouse-Five

In this special bonus Vonne-chat, Alex and Michael are joined by Marc Leeds, author of The Vonnegut Encyclopedia. They discuss what it's like being a character in one of Kurt's novels, whether his books are truly a shared universe and how Marc compiled his nearly 800 page tome, an A-Z database of Vonnegut characters, settings and themes.

Related Reading:

The Vonnegut Encyclopedia: https://goo.gl/J7HN1E

Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library: Marc Leeds Bio: https://goo.gl/VO7VAp

The Daily Vonnegut: Interview with Marc Leeds: https://goo.gl/Mqkus4

Vonne-chat: Marc Leeds

Plot Time! (02:10)

Fortitude Time! (01:01:20)

Christmas Time! (01:12:20)

Kurt Blurt! (01:18:50)

Recurring Characters Update! (01:47:00)

Kurt Cameo! (01:48:20)

VonneWHAT! (01:50:00)

The Meat! (01:58:15)

Vonnegrades! (02:04:30)

Drama Time! (02:09:30)

Related Reading! (02:21:30)

Vonnegut News! (02:32:30)


Related Reading:

Podcast: Revisionist History: The Satire Paradox: https://goo.gl/h7759e

Film: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: https://goo.gl/1hi4nI

Film: O Brother, Where Art Thou?: https://goo.gl/pexMGk

Film: Sullivan's Travels: https://goo.gl/XdLINd

Play: Suzan-Lori Parks: 'The Last Living Black Man in the Whole Entire World' & 'The America Play' (which Michael calls 'The Death of Abraham Lincoln'): https://goo.gl/LfeX6N

The Neo-Futurists: https://goo.gl/87I0K3

Song: Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer: Cat-Eye Willie Claims His Lover: https://goo.gl/LdE5Bg

Short Story: Ray Bradbury: The Kilimanjaro Device: https://goo.gl/YaUH2K

Article: The National Law Review: Illinois Federal Judge Awards Treble Damages and Attorney's Fees in Kurt Vonnegut-Fueled Opinion: https://goo.gl/RqY6YY

Happy Birthday, Wanda June

Plot Time! (02:00)

Kurt Blurt! (1:14:00)

Recurring Characters Update! (1:36:00)

Kurt Cameo! (1:38:30)

Related Reading! (1:39:15)

VonneWHATMEAT! (1:49:45)

Vonnegrades! (2:14:45)

Movie Time! (2:17:22)

Vonnegut News! (2:32:30)

Related Reading:

Short Story: Ray Bradbury: "The Earthmen" (part of The Martian Chronicles): https://goo.gl/uA719G

Video: Connections: https://goo.gl/vixNYh

Book: Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: https://goo.gl/T2KOkT

Book: Jonathan Safran Foer: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close: https://goo.gl/HYl3ig

Book: Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: https://goo.gl/jdpYMe

Short Story: Harlan Ellison: The Region Between: https://goo.gl/57J4i9

Short Story: Michael Swaim: And It Goes Like This (A Fable): https://goo.gl/o5RZ8r

Podcast: Revisionist History: The Satire Paradox: https://goo.gl/h7759e

Take the Duke University Vonnegut Study: tinyurl.com/sciencevonneguys

Breakfast of Champions

Segments:

Story/Essay Time (00:00:30)

Kurt Blurt (01:19:30)

VonneWHAT (01:27:00)

Kurt Blurt, Part II (01:34:30)

The Meat (01:44:30)

VonneGRADES (01:45:40)

Related Reading (01:47:30)

Kurt Vonnegut's Personal Library of Related Recommended Things For You to Read (01:52:10)

Vonnegut News (01:59:20)

Related Reading:

​Book: ​Sherman Alexi​e​:The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian​: https://goo.gl/prPzP4​

Speech: ​Mary Schmich​: Wear Sunscreen: https://goo.gl/zs12n

Speech: David Foster Wallace: This is Water: https://goo.gl/XMEqj

​Kurt Vonnegut's Reccomendations:

Full Text: Edgar Lee Masters: Spoon River Anthology​: https://goo.gl/qBpVMv

Book: USA (The 42nd Parallel, 1919,  The Big Money): John Dos Passos: https://goo.gl/ofoFOi

Full Text: Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary: https://goo.gl/JthcXb

Full Text: King Henry VI, Pt III: https://goo.gl/5SlCET

Book: Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: https://goo.gl/bWvTDN

Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons

Plot Time! (00:40) 

Kurt Blurt! (01:14:15) 

VonneArt! (01:31:30) 

Recurring Characters Update! (01:34:25) 

Kurt Cameo! (01:37:45) 

VonneWHAT! (01:38:35)

Movie Time! (01:45:45) 

The Meat! (01:55:00) 

Vonnegrades! (02:05:15) 

Related Reading! (02:07:55) 

Vonnegut News! (02:16:25)

Related Reading:

Book: Theodore Sturgeon: More Than Human: https://goo.gl/sfv6NG

Short Story: Harlan Ellison: In Fear of K (in Strange Wine): https://goo.gl/Jm2dfP

Book: Ray Bradbury: Something Wicked This Way Comes: https://goo.gl/n8h6HI

Short Story: HP Lovecraft: The Outsider: https://goo.gl/86RReb

Song: Frank Zappa: Bobby Brown Goes Down: https://goo.gl/OxOMAv

Slapstick

Plot Time! (00:02:30)

Kurt Blurt! (01:17:00)

The Meat! (01:31:15)

Recurring Characters Update! (01:42:10)

Kurt Cameo! (01:45:50)

VonneWHAT! (01:46:50)

Vonnegrades! (01:56:20)

Movie Time! (2:00:50)

Music Time! (2:15:50)

Related Reading! (02:24:30)

Related Reading:

Short Story: Guy De Maupassant:  The Necklace: https://goo.gl/Upnq

Book: Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man: https://goo.gl/GHHXQs

Play: Tony Kushner: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: https://goo.gl/vLVKdn

Short Story: George Saunders: Escape from Spiderhead: https://goo.gl/I0ek3q

Graphic Novel: Alan Moore, David Lloyd: V for Vendetta: https://goo.gl/E1FRQ3

Book: Neil Gaiman: American Gods: https://goo.gl/Wx2GiC

Jailbird

Franken-Time! (00:03:00)

Story Time! (00:05:30)

Kurt Blurt! (00:50:10)

VonneART!  (01:00:50)

VonneWHAT!? (01:10:45)

Vonnegrades! (01:30:15)

Related Reading (01:14:40)

Vonnefriends! (01:18:00)

Related Reading:
Article: io9: The Universal Shapes of Stories, According to Kurt Vonnegut: https://goo.gl/q2jpzc
Full Text: Mark Twain: Life on the Mississippi: https://goo.gl/EcTo40
Book: Dave Eggers: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: https://goo.gl/C5EodB
Book: Stephen King: On Writing: https://goo.gl/U6bsLg
Book: Harlan Ellison: The Other Glass Teat: https://goo.gl/W5yWbk

Palm Sunday (Live)

Plot Time (00:01:00)

The Meat (01:04:00)

Kurt Cameo (01:19:45)

Recurring Characters Update (01:24:20)

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Galápagos

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From The Group: 'Slaughterhouse-Five' to 'Galápagos'

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A Man Without A Country

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