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...Vonnegut, Sneak preview of a new film written by Kurt Vonnegut. UFO Orson Welles, 11:45, Feb. 25. Burn...
Happy Birthday Wanda June. Kurt Vonnegut's first film, Abbey...
Happy Birthday Wanda June, Kurt Vonnegut's first film, Abbey...
Novelist Kurt Vonnegut once proposed that writers adopt a basic unit of "conscience measurement," to be called the "Stowe" in honor of the "only writer in history who had an effect on the course of world affairs." What disturbed Vonnegut, though, was the knowledge that people "having read Uncle Tom's Cabin and cried, feel that they have somehow dealt with the problem...
What comes especially clear in Wanda June is that Vonnegut is an easy kind of satirist. His writing is full of engineered whimsy, empty of rage. He is so eager to ingratiate himself with his audience that he seldom takes on anything more substantial than tentative heroes, canting psychiatrists, fumbling representatives of Mencken's American booboisie. A couple of heavyweight opponents are indeed invoked throughout Wanda June (the war in Viet Nam, the Christian religion). But Vonnegut dances around them like a kid from the Golden Gloves unwilling to risk even...