We will never forget.
Monday, November 11, 2024
Laini Taylor, on writing and reading:
I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough.
It does not, for example, contain dragons.
I find this unsatisfactory.
So I read.
And I write.
- Laini Taylor.
Recommended reading - The Blue Knight
The Blue Knight
by Joseph Wambaugh.Published by Grand Central Publishing.
Mass Market Paperback.
ISBN-13: 978-0446509190
Born on this day – Anna Katharine Green:
Credits:
The
Leavenworth Case (1878); A Strange Disappearance (1880); Hand and Ring (1883);
Behind Closed Doors (1888); A Matter of Millions (1891); The Doctor, His Wife,
and the Clock (1895); That Affair Next Door (1897); Lost Man's Lane (1898); The
Circular Study (1900); One of My Sons (1901); Initials Only (1911); Mystery of
the Hasty Arrow (1917); That Affair Next Door (1897); Lost Man's Lane (1898);
The Circular Study (1900); Agatha Webb (1899); The Woman in the Alcove (aka A
Woman of Mystery) (1906); The House of the Whispering Pines (1910); XYZ (1883);
The Mill Mystery (1886); 7 to 12 (1887); The Forsaken Inn (1890); Cynthia
Wakeham's Money (1892); Marked Personal (1893); Miss Hurd - An Enigma (1894);
Dr. Izard (1895); The Filigree Ball (1903); The House in the Mist (1905); The
Millionaire Baby (1905); The Chief Legatee (1906); The Chief Lagatee (1907);
The Mayor's Wife (1907); The Sward of Damocles (1909); Three Thousand Dollars
(1910); Dark Hollow (1914); The Step On the Stair (1923); The Defense of the Bride
(poems) (1882); The Old Stone House (1891); A Difficult Problem (1900); The
Amethyst Box (1905); Masterpieces of Mystery (1912); The Golden Slipper (1915);
To the Minute, Scarlet and Black (1916); Room Number 3 (1919); The Collected
Mysteries of Anna Katharine Green (2011); The Bronze Hand (1897).
Born on this day – Kurt Vonnegut:
Kurt Vonnegut
Credits:
Books:
Galápagos (1985); Bluebeard (1987); Player Piano / Utopia 14 (1952); The Sirens of Titan (1959); Cat's Cradle (1960); Mother Night (1961); Harrison Bergeron (1961); God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965); Slaughterhouse-Five (1969); Between Time and Timbuktu (1972); Breakfast of Champions (1973); Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! (1976); Jailbird (1979); Deadeye Dick (1982); Hocus Pocus (1990); Timequake (1997); The Big Trip Up Yonder (1954); 2 B R 0 2 B (1968); Who Am I This Time? For Romeos and Juliets (1970); God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999); The Honor of a Newsboy (2009); Confido (2009); Hall of Mirrors (2009); A Song for Selma (2009); Hello, Red (2009); The Good Explainer (2009); King and Queen of the Universe (2009); Little Drops of Water (2009); The Nice Little People (2009); Ed Luby's Key Club (2009); Shout about It from the Housetops (2009); FUBAR (2009); Basic Training (2012); Vonnegut by the Dozen: Twelve Pieces by Kurt Vonnegut (2013); Slice of Life (2016); Canary in a Cat House (1961); 2BR02B (1962); Welcome to the Monkey House (1968); Bagombo Snuff Box (1999); Armageddon in Retrospect (2008); Look at the Birdie (2009); While Mortals Sleep (2011); Sucker's Portfolio (2012); Sinbad (2016); Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974); Palm Sunday (1981); Like Shaking Hands with God (1999); Kurt Vonnegut on Mark Twain, Lincoln, Imperialist Wars and the Weather (2004); A Man Without a Country (2005); Letters (2012); We Are What We Pretend To Be (2012); If This Isn't Nice What Is? (2013); Pity the Reader (2019); Fates Worse Than Death (1982); Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945 (2020); Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970); Sun, Moon, Star (1980); Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade (2020); The Flying Sorcerers (1997); The Wizards of Odd (1997); Wizards of Odd (1997); Learning to Live Finally: The Last Interview (2005); Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The Last Interview (2011); Big City Cool: Short Stories About Urban Youth (2002); Connoisseur's Science Fiction (1964); ABC of Science Fiction (1968); Best SF Vol 7 (1971); Masks (1971); Autumn Light: Illuminations of Age (1978); The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction (1980); The Golden Age of Science Fiction (1981); Space Odyssey (1983); A World of Fiction (1983); Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1985); Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century (1987); The Ultimate Frankenstein (1991); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Cybersex: Aliens, Neurosex and Cyborgasms (1996); The Flying Sorcerers (1997); Wizards of Odd (1997); The Playboy Book of Science Fiction (1998); Writers on Writing (2001); Big City Cool: Short Stories About Urban Youth (2002); Louder than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine (2004); Favorite Science Fiction Stories, Volume 2 (2010); The Best American Mystery Stories 2010 (2010); Slaughterhouse-Five: Critical Insights (2010); Science Fiction Collection 002 (2011); The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack (2012); The Big Book of Classic Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction (2013); Lieu: Science Fiction Short Stories (2015); Grave Predictions (2016); The Ultimate Short Story Bundle (2020).
Awards:
1953: nominated for the
International Fantasy Award for: Player Piano.
1960: won the Writers Guild of
America Award for: Auf Wiedersehen.
1960: finalist for the Hugo Award
for Best Novel for: The Sirens of Titan.
1964: finalist for the Hugo Award
for Best Novel for: Cat's Cradle.
1970: nominated for the Nebula Award
for: Slaughterhouse-Five.
1970: finalist for the Hugo Award
for Best Novel for: Slaughterhouse-Five.
1971: won the Drama Desk Award for
Outstanding New Play for: Happy Birthday Wanda June.
1973: won the Seiun Award for
foreign novel for: The Sirens of Titan.
1973: won the Hugo Award for Best
Dramatic Presentation winner for: Slaughterhouse-Five.
1986: won second placed for the John
W. Campbell Award for: Galapagos.
2009: won the Audie Award for Short
Stories / Collections for: Armageddon in Retrospect.
2015: awarded a place in the Science
Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, by the Science Fiction Museum.
2019: won the Prometheus Hall of Fame award, by the Libertarian Futurist Society, for: Harrison Bergeron.
Movies and television:
1 Giant Leap (2002); 2081 (2009);
2Br02B (2016); 2BR02b (2016); 2BR02B (2017); 2BR02B: To Be or Naught to Be
(2016 / 2018); 60 Minutes (1970); 90 Minutes Live (1977–1978); A Curious World
(2016); A Man Without a Country (2012); A Matadeira (1994); American Experience
(1997); American Playhouse (1982–1985); Automatic Thirteen (2007); Back to
School (1986); Between Time and Timbuktu (1972); Breakfast of Champions (1999);
Brooklyn Bridge (1981); Bus Stop (1961); Charlie Rose (2007); Curious Matter
Anthology (2021); Deer in the Works (1980); Epicac (2008); Film '72 (1972);
First Man (2018); FUBAR (2019); Full House (1973); General Electric Theater
(1955–1958); God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut (2018); Happy Birthday, Wanda June
(1971); Harrison Bergeron (1995 / 2006); Here After (2020); 'Hick' Town (2009);
Hollywood Insider (2021); I riassuntini (2018); Karikakramäng / Segment:
Promenaad (1976); Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: A Self-Portrait (1975); Kurt Vonnegut:
Reporter on the Afterlife (2023); Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (2021); Kurt
Vonnegut's A Man Without a Country (2018); Kurt Vonnegut's Saab Dealership
(2022); Langmuir's World (1998); Long Walk to Forever (1987 / 2014); Monkey
House (1991–1993); Mother Night (1996); Moving Image Salutes Elia Kazan (1987);
Moving Image Salutes James Stewart (1988); Moving Image Salutes Sidney Poitier
(1989); Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, the Road Is All... (2015); Never
Down (2007); New Nightmares (1993); Newsstand Theatre (1952); Next Door (1976);
Now on PBS (2005); Poetry, Passion, the Postman: The Poetic Return of Pablo
Neruda (1996); Real Time with Bill Maher (2005); Rex Harrison Presents Stories
of Love / Segment: Epicac (1974); Saturday Review (1986); Scary Stories Around
the Fire (2024); Sicko (2007); Slapstick of Another Kind (1982);
Slaughterhouse-Five (1972); Spegeln - för konst och kultur (1977); Tabu
Vergeltung - Die Literaten und der Luftkrieg (2000); The ABCs of Book Banning
(2023); The American Ruling Class (2005); The Big Trip Up Yonder (2014); The
Civil War (1990); The Congress (1989); The Daily Show (2005); The David Frost
Show (1972); The Day of Five Billion (1987); The Dick Cavett Show (1989); The
Ford Television Theatre (1954); The Foster Portfolio (2017); The Larry Solway
Show (1976); The Last Day of Charley E. Rays (2016); The Making of
Slaughterhouse-Five (1972); The Man from Bagombo (2010); The Merv Griffin Show
(1969); The Painted Boy (1995); Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg (1994); Will
Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist (2007).
Born on this day – William Matthews:
On this day in movie history - Kansas City Confidential (1952)
Kansas City Confidential
On this day in movie history - The Blue Knight (1973)
The Blue Knight
On this day in movie history - Monster’s Ball (2001)
Monster’s Ball
On this day in movie history - Beat the Devil (2021)
Beat the Devil
directed and written by David Hare,
based on the monologue play by David Hare,
was released in the United Kingdom on November 11, 2021.
Music by George Fenton.