Hey! It's my pub day! Please spread the word: THE WRITER'S CRUSADE (rb.gy/qkz90t) is about Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five & the writer's path from trauma. Tonight's virtual party: shorturl.at/fhvJ7
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Our #reviewoftheweek provides a literary critique of Kurt Vonnegut’s "Slaughterhouse-Five" through the lens of Vonnegut’s PTSD as a combat-veteran in 's “The Writer’s Crusade” from : ow.ly/kG8j50LCuC5 #Vonnegut #bookreview #ptsd
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This is like writing a birthday card on used toilet paper but Vonnegut would've turned 100 today so HBD Kurt! He would've hated Twitter but maybe not . KV once sold cars and would've loved Tesla. And he had a strange fondness for. . .
Looking forward to celebrating Kurt Vonnegut tonight with & other NYC free thinkers
Join KVML Board Chair, comedian Lewis Black and his friends, including musician Jason Yeager, journalist David Brancaccio, publisher Dan Simon, and more for an evening to benefit the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library on September 8th.
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💥Participated in Teaching Vonnegut PD this week—so many ideas to start the school year! Thank you 📚✍🏼☀️
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This is a workshop you won't want to miss! Renowned journalist, Tom Roston teaches Slaughterhouse-Five like never before. Register here: eventbrite.com/e/nothing-was-
For info on the full 2022 Teaching Vonnegut series, please visit kvml.org/teaching-vonne
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Teachers, how do you talk about trauma with Generation Z? Try Vonnegut! I'm leading a virtual seminar (for all Vonnegut-fans, humans, etc) this Thursday (7/21) at 7pm on the subject of PTSD & Slaughter-House Five. Join us: shorturl.at/fP139
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
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Let's talk Slaughterhouse-Five and PTSD: I'm running a seminar w/ for anyone, esp. teachers who want to discuss trauma in the classroom. Join us: shorturl.at/fP139
Tom Roston's Book on Vonnegut and "Slaughterhouse-Five" Arrives When Readers Need It | History News Network
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The ultimate irony that would define an ironic generation: A chemical called GenX created by a conglomerate could save the planet.
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Attorneys from @arnoldporter wrote that GenX is used in the process of creating compounds called fluoropolymers, which are used to make lithium-ion batteries used in electric cars, membranes used for water purification, and hydrogen from renewable sources. interc.pt/37MfTXC
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Attorneys from wrote that GenX is used in the process of creating compounds called fluoropolymers, which are used to make lithium-ion batteries used in electric cars, membranes used for water purification, and hydrogen from renewable sources.
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I read 's 'The Writer's Crusade', about Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse-Five, twice recently. Maybe more if you count the number of times I carried it around and dipped into it.
I enjoyed it so much, I ended up writing down some notes..
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I love the Russian people. That is why I have to tell you the truth. Please watch and share.
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That first stanza / that last stanza / the whole damn poem.
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Umbrella Performance Protest For Ukraine: Close The Sky ☔️ ☔️ ☔️
Saturday 12 March at 1:00 pm, Times Square
Show up with yellow and blue umbrellas to demonstrate to NATO the importance of closing the sky over Ukraine! #CloseTheSky #NoFlyZone #StandWithUkraine #TimesSquare #NYC
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“In Slavic folklore, bad things can happen in thresholds like waking up, being drunk or being inside and outside. Ukraine itself is one of those thresholds, between East and West.” - The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga (2014)
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This, out of #Ukraine, is 100% one of the most incredible videos I have ever seen.
This Russian POW has the heart of a lion 
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Heartening that 2/3-plus of the #supportukraine rally are Ukrainians/Russians but where is the rest of concerned America? People need to get to the streets.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Europeans on Friday to “take to the streets” to support Ukraine. Protesters did so in Bratislava, Frankfurt, Lyon, Prague, Tbilisi, Vienna and Vilnius.
Follow live updates: nyti.ms/35ARxPw
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⚡️Massive rally in NYC this Saturday, March 5, at 1PM.
Meet us at Times Square to #StandWithUkraine, #StopPutinNOW, and demand a #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine and other critical assistance and action from the world. ✊
Слава Україні! 💛💙
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Razom, together with about 20 orgs, has created a trusted corridor from the US to Ukraine for the delivery of life-saving supplies. The channel connects 2 warehouses in Poland and Ukraine, from which supplies can then be delivered further.
Read more: razomforukraine.org/the-first-urge
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Sitting alone in a wartime city in the night, sipping iced whiskey, listening to the sound of air raid sirens roar, looking into the dark of the street.
I will never forgive them for what they did to the Kyiv we love.
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If you want to know how Ukrainians react to Putin's speech, here's a glimpse: moms on Facebook discuss putting stickers on their children's clothes, when they go to school, indicating their blood type. Make no mistake: this speech was perceived as a declaration of war on Ukraine
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Anyone questioning the outsized importance of Ukraine to the balance of world power never played Risk in the 70s.
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There are less than THREE WEEKS left to submit your work for this year’s edition of #SoItGoes!
👉 👉 kvml.org/so-it-goes/#su
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Anyone got good classic film noir recommendations, something that won’t bore her in first 15 minutes, for my 11-y-o? Be nice!
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Join us on 1/20 at 7pm EST as we kick off the #VonnegutCentennial with author , publisher Dan Simon, Assistant Director , and Founder Julia Whitehead! RSVP:
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Hurrah!
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"A book about time; or, put another way, a book about how Pilgrim (and Vonnegut) became unstuck in time and how this 'unsticking' created 'Slaughterhouse-Five.'" Check out @washingtonpost review of Tom Roston's (@DocSoupMan) THE WRITER'S CRUSADE! wapo.st/3zQkQsm
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Hey now, spread the good word!
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For fans of Vonnegut, a review of mine: @DocSoupMan’s new book about “Slaughterhouse-Five”. washingtonpost.com/outlook/did-ku
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"Part literary scholar and part psychoanalytic sleuth." I'll take it! Thanks, for the thoughtful. . . Review | Did Kurt Vonnegut have PTSD? And does ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ prove it?
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Thanks to for the rave review! (Vonnegut was part of the literati in Sagaponack.) easthamptonstar.com/books/202216/a
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Interchange – Vonnegut on Tralfamadore: Billy Pilgrim and PTSD
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