Culture For The Non-Cultured

Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse Five, Welcome to the Monkey House, and other novels contributed fantastic words of advice to writers in a newspaper years ago, re-published on San Diego State University website (via Kottke via Chris Glass)
Vonnegut’s whole article is great — self-deprecating and witty and downright charming. His suggestions are for writing, but [...]

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… And by “Little Tramp,” I mean Charlie Chaplin, so get your mind out of the gutter, Dear Reader.
Last year’s New Yorker had a wonderful little gem of a story about Chaplin’s work ethic (if you go to the link for the story, you need to scroll down to the end to read [...]

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