@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“When school began again, this fall, the students were pleased and surprised to find what once was a desert-like dust-bowl was covered with green sod and neat cinder paths.” article in The Shortridge High School Daily Echo – September 26, 1939.
@susiarnott.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy"The book's most tragic character is Rudy Hertz, the machinist who was the prototype recorded by the machines. They are player pianos replicating his physical motions." #Vonnegut
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@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“Did you happen to see the letter in the Saturday Review of Literature, where a professor at Hunter named his ten favorite novels during the last ten years – and Mother Night was one of them?” – letter to Knox Burger – September 25 1963.
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“Letters from readers poured in, most of them saying that I was the sort of person who would have told Christopher Columbus to stay home.” – from “The Last Tasmanian,” published in Sucker’s Portfolio, possibly written around September of 1992.
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, ‘The Beatles did.’” – from Timequake – published September 22 1997.
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“I’m on the second floor of the sort of frame house Penrod lived in. It’s crazy – all the land these people have, and they build their houses chockablock on teeny weeny lots.” - letter to Jane Vonnegut – September 21 1965.
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“I…must depart for the West Coast to hustle my own latest book, no roman fleuve, but the sweepings from the floor of a chop shop.” – letter to Sidney Offit – September 19 1991.
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“I’m crazy to get to work…I’ve had the moaning blues for four nights in a row.” – letter to Jane Cox – September 18 1941.
@gmrstudios.bsky.socialA Sense of Doubt blog post 4230 - Vonnegut's Rules for Great Writing - Writing Wednesday 2609.16. sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-se... #WritingWednesday #WritingTips #WritingComminity #Vonnegut
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“American theater is coming to life again, and it’s so pleasant for old poops like us to write plays. We don’t have to describe anything, and there’s so much white space on every page.” – letter to Vance Bourjaily – September 17 1972.
@dralant.bsky.social✍️ Workplace Revolutions:
'"A third, eh?...if you mean thinking machines. That would be the third revolution, I guess - machines that devalue human thinking."'
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👁️ PLAYER PIANO, p. 15. #Vonnegut #literature #Ai 📚
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“I have stopped drinking. The only drawback seems to be that I can’t dance like Fred Astaire anymore.” – letter to Gail Godwin – September 14 1979.
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.socialIf you’re interested in the life and writing of Kurt Vonnegut, check out The Vonnegut Portfolio on Substack. It’s all free. Here’s the latest piece:
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“Your perfectly neat book about me and the others arrived yesterday. If you hadn’t supplied an index which pinpointed every mention of me, I wouldn’t have been able to put it down until I’d read it all.” – letter to Robert Scholes -September 11, 1967.
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“A sound portfolio is a thing of beauty in its way, aside from its cash value. Putting one together is a creative act, if done right…” – from “The Foster Portfolio,” published in Collier’s September 8, 1951.
New content on The Vonnegut Portfolio Substack coming Thursday!
@satorifunkmacheen.bsky.social@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“The Creator now saw a sun, a moon, and a star come together in an impossible cosmic tangle. What could be the explanation? The baby’s eyes were crossed.” - from Sun Moon Star, published in September 1980.
