The literary love-story, which continued despite long periods of absence and his two marriages, began when Rackstraw attended a writers’ workshop at Iowa University led by Vonnegut in 1965, four years before Slaughterhouse-Five was published.
Tag: 01.19.09
It’s Too Cold! So Forget The Strad.
When Yo Yo Ma and other string musicians perform outdoors at this week’s inauguration events, they’ll leave their valuable instruments inside. Instead they’ll be playing on carbon fiber…
Forget The Editorial – Documentaries Are The New Opinion-Shapers
“At a time when investigative print reporting is withering, through shrinking newspaper budgets and readerships, when journalism schools are turning out fewer and fewer investigative reporters for that reason, one could argue that documentaries are becoming our main source of investigative journalism.”
Say Goodbye To The Book Launch Party
Regularly plundered by social diarists for titbits of gossip, free warm wine and soggy canapes, invitations are dwindling as publishing houses pull in their horns. Many have ordered a ban for all but the big-hitting books, leaving it to authors themselves to foot the bill.
The Theatre That Begat A Medical Conference
“On Thursday, New Haven’s Long Wharf will be drawing on the world-class medical and scientific community at nearby Yale University and Yale-New Haven Hospital, as well as representatives of major drug manufacturers and other biotech experts, for a daylong symposium on AIDS and other infectious diseases.”
Shouts & Murmurs Takes On The Crisis In Memoirs
A letter to Oprah: “I was born in Chicago in 1969. Shortly afterward, in 1941, my entire family was rounded up by the authorities and sent to the Theresienstadt camp, along with tens of thousands of other Jews…. The first few days there, separated from my family, denied even the most basic creature comforts, I was in a state of shock. I could hardly eat or sleep, and, to make matters worse, I had misplaced my cell-phone charger.”