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• The upside of fat in foods
• chef Thomas Keller
• actress Michelle Williams
• Jell-O creations
• toasters

Happy Birthday, Wanda June (and Kurt Vonnegut!)

I'm a huge Kurt Vonnegut fan. Have been ever since my BFF Robin gave me Bluebeard for Christmas when I was 16. I plan to read everything he's written, but so far have just read about half of his books. Starting today - his birthday! - I'm going to start back at the beginning and read all of his books in chronological order (I'm also a big fan of chronological order.) But not in a row - I will intersperse them with other books.

I put this chronological list (yay!) together from the bibliography on the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library website:

• Player Piano (1952); pub. as Utopia 14 (1954); repub. as Player Piano (1966) Novels
• The Sirens of Titan (1959) Novels
• Mother Night (1961) Novels
• Canary in a Cathouse (1961) Collections (Short Fiction, Essays, Etc.)
• Cat’s Cradle (1963) Novel
• God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine (1965) Novels
• Welcome to the Monkey House: A Collection of Short Works (1968) Collections (Short Fiction, Essays, Etc.)
• Fortitude (1968) Plays
• Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969) Novels
• Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970) Plays
• Between Time and Timbuktu, or Prometheus-5: A Space Fantasy (1972) Plays
• Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday (1973) Novels
• Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons (1974) Collections (Short Fiction, Essays, Etc.)
• Slapstick, or Lonesome No More (1976) Novels
• Jailbird (1979) Novels
• Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage (1981) Collections (Short Fiction, Essays, Etc.)
• Deadeye Dick (1982) Novels
• Nothing Is Lost Save Honor: Two Essays (1984) Collections (Short Fiction, Essays, Etc.)
• Galápagos: A Novel (1985) Novels
• Bluebeard (1987) Novels
• Hocus Pocus (1990) Novels
• Fates Worse than Death : an Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s (1991) Collections (Short Fiction, Essays, Etc.)
• Make Up Your Mind (1993) Plays
• Miss Temptation (1993) Plays
• L’Histoire du Soldat, adaptation (1993) Plays
• Timequake (1997) Novels
• Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction (1999) Collections (Short Fiction, Essays, Etc.)
• God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999) Collections (Short Fiction, Essays, Etc.)
• A Man Without a Country: A Memoir Of Life In George W. Bush’s America (2005) Collections (Short Fiction, Essays, Etc.)
• Armageddon in Retrospect (2008) Collections (Short Fiction, Essays, Etc.)

Things I Have Spent Studio Night Putting Together for My Sketchbook Class

• pencils
• more pencils
• pens
• blank sketchbooks!
• a plastic bin of filled-in sketchbooks
• a big piece of foam core with examples of really good sketches pinned all over it
  
• drafting dots
  
• a pile of magazine clippings
  
• a bag full of books
• a bag full of apples
• a bag full of hats
• no erasers

The Sketchbook at Flicker Street Studio
November 3, 10, 17