
Alex Schmidt
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Kurt Vonnegut Gets Trippy In 'Breakfast of Champions'
You wouldn't expect a novel full of anus and vagina drawings to break your heart, but 'Breakfast of Champions' does just that.
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- By Alex Schmidt, Michael Swaim
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Analyzing Kurt Vonnegut's Overlooked Playwriting
Kurt Vonnegut: Soldier, Writer, Man, Secret Drama Nerd.
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- By Michael Swaim, Alex Schmidt
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How Ann Coulter And Milo Yiannopoulos Are Playing You
It's become your daily morning ritual. Wake up. Open Twitter. And here come's your fix.
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- By Alex Schmidt, Katie Goldin, Jason Pargin, Jack O'Brien
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Time Is A Flat Circle In Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007. And so it goes.
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- By Michael Swaim, Alex Schmidt
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Rapid-Fire Book Reports For 25 Vonnegut Short Stories
Science-fiction authors don't get to feel like rock stars very often.
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- By Michael Swaim, Alex Schmidt
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Mistakes That Created The Best Art Of The Last 100 Years
It's easy to think every piece of great art or unforgettable pop-culture is the result of effortless genius and precise intentionality.
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- By Teresa Lee, Jack O'Brien, Alex Schmidt
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Kurt Vonnegut's Prescient Novel About Economic Inequality
Worldwide income disparity got you down?
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- By Alex Schmidt, Michael Swaim
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What Every Year-In-Review Is Totally Missing This Year
2016 is almost over.
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- By Cody Johnston, Jack O'Brien, Daniel O'Brien, Alex Schmidt
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Vonnegut's Novel About Religion, Apocalypse And Foot Rubbing
Cat's Cradle is a book that sits in rare company with your Great Gatsbys and Catchers in the Rye as one of the few pieces of required reading from high school that everyone actually liked.
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- By Alex Schmidt, Michael Swaim
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The Truth About That Conservative Lady On The Daily Show
Way to go, internet, you screwed up again.
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- By Alex Schmidt
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3 Things Killing American Democracy (That Aren't Trump)
Regardless of who got elected President this year, this election was a flat-out disaster for democracy.
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- By Alex Schmidt
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Kurt Vonnegut's All Too Timely Novel About Accidental Nazis
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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- By Alex Schmidt, Michael Swaim
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10 Myths from Sci-Fi Movies You Should Shoot Out An Airlock
Believe it or not, Matthew McConaughey's thesis (from behind a bookshelf inside a black hole) that love is the most powerful force in the universe isn't the most scientifically accurate thing Hollywood has offered us lately.
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- By Jack O'Brien, Alex Schmidt
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7 Points In Time We Wish We Could Time Travel To
Scenario: you've got a time machine and you only like two things in this life: eatin' breakfast and killin' Nazis, and you've already eaten breakfast.
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- By Jack O'Brien, Alex Schmidt
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Kurt Vonnegut's Take On '1984'
You're probably familiar with Kurt Vonnegut's required reading, or rather the Kurt Vonnegut books your high school English teacher required you to read.
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- By Alex Schmidt, Michael Swaim, Jack O'Brien
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Inside One Of America’s Most Brilliant Minds
We have a lot to say about Kurt Vonnegut.
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- By Michael Swaim, Alex Schmidt
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Stupid Lies From Pop Culture That Everybody Believes
We all know Rome wasn't built in a day.
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- By Alex Schmidt, Jason Pargin, Jack O'Brien
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7 True Stories That Should’ve Already Been Made Into Movies
Ahh September, the leaves are changing into autumnal shades of yellow, red and orange, the air has a chilly bite, and movie theaters are being inundated with 'Based on a True Story' Oscar-bait.
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- By Jack O'Brien, Alex Schmidt, Carmen Angelica, Michael Swaim, Tom Reimann
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Why Science And Religion Don't Have To Be Mutually Exclusive
We've never known more about our world and our universe, but at the same time it feels like there are more people who completely ignore science than ever before.
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- By Jack O'Brien, Soren Bowie, Alex Schmidt
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Why You Don't Want To Go To School At Hogwarts
So after seven books, eight movies and a trip to Universal Studios, you think you would prefer to go to Hogwarts than live in real life.
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- By Daniel O'Brien, Alex Schmidt, Jack O'Brien, J.F. Sargent
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