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NOW Friday, October 7, 2005 on PBS (Check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html) ================================================================== This week on NOW: * Simply Vonnegut. Literary giant Kurt Vonnegut has some choice words for our political parties, our system, and our president in this interview with David Brancaccio. ================================================================== KURT VONNEGUT David Brancaccio sits down with literary icon Kurt Vonnegut to talk about his life and the current state of American democracy. With his classic wit, the legendary author of Cat's Cradle, Saughterhouse Five, and Breakfast of Champions comments on how American democracy works and delivers some choice words for our parties, our system, and our president. "It's the winners. And then everybody else is the losers," he says. "And the winners divided into two parties: the Republicans and the Democrats." His latest book, a collection of nonfiction entitled A Man Without a Country, is a bestseller. =================================================================== NOW continues online at PBS.org (www.pbs.org/now). Log on to explore Kurt Vonnegut's life and works; to respond to Vonnegut with NOW's Quote of the Week; to delve into the past and present of art and politics in America; to beef up your reading list with NOW's Book List; and more. **We want your feedback. If you watch NOW on Thirteen/WNET in New York and would like to participate in a small discussion group about NOW, click here: http://www.pbs.org/now/focus_group/ * NOW on Demand. Sign up for podcasting, RSS feeds, view transcripts and watch NOW reports online at www.pbs.org/now. =================================================================== Hosted by David Brancaccio, NOW has been called "...must-see, make-your-blood-boil television..." by Newsday and "...public television at its best" by the Philadelphia Inquirer. Each week, the series sheds light on a wide range of issues confronting the nation and explores American democracy and culture through investigative reporting and interviews with major authors, leading thinkers, and artists. You have received this e-mail because you asked to be informed of information on upcoming programs. To subscribe or unsubscribe from the weekly NOW newsletter, visit www.pbs.org/now/newsletter.html. NOW - 450 West 33rd Street New York, NY 10001 212-560-8186 _______________________________________________ NOW-Update mailing list http://webmail.thirteen.org/mailman/listinfo/now-update _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
