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NOVELS
- Player
Piano. 1952; published as Utopia 14
(1954). Published again as Player Piano, 1966.
- The
Sirens of Titan. 1959.
- Mother
Night. 1961. Hardcover edition, 1966.
- Cat's
Cradle. 1963.
- God
Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; or, Pearls before Swine.
1965.
- Slaughterhouse
Five; or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance
with Death, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., a Fourth-Generation
German-American Now Living in Easy Circumstances on
Cape Cod (and Smoking Too Much) Who, as an American
Infantry Scout Hors de Combat, as a Prisoner of War,
Witnessed the Fire-Bombing of Dreseden, Germany, the
Florence of the Elbe, a Long Time Ago, and Survived
to Tell the Tale: This Is a Novel Somewhat in the
Telegraphic Schizophrenic Manner of Tales of the Planet
Tralfamadore, Where the Flying Saucers Come From.
1969. Twenty-fifth anniversary edition, 1994.
- Breakfast
of Champions; or, Goodbye Blue Monday. 1973.
- Slapstick;
or, Lonesome No More. 1976.
- Jailbird.
1979.
- Deadeye
Dick. 1982.
- Galápagos:
A Novel. 1985.
- Bluebeard.
1987.
- Hocus
Pocus. 1990.
- Timequake.
1997.
COLLECTED
SHORT FICTION
PLAYS,
WORKS for TELEVISION, ADAPTATIONS by KV
COLLECTED
ESSAYS and SUCH
SELECTED
UNCOLLECTED ESSAYS, SOUNDINGS, ETC.
- Sun,
Moon, Star. 1980. A work for children, illustrated
by Ivan Chermayeff.
- ''Books
into Ashes.'' New York Times 4.19, February
7, 1982.
- ''Avoiding
the Big Bang.'' New York Times 4.23, June
13, 1982.
- Bob
and Ray: A Retrospective, June 15-July 10, 1982.
1982. Contributor.
- Discrimination,
Affirmative Action, and Equal Opportunity: An Economic
and Social Perspective. 1982. Contributor.
- ''A
Dream of the Future (Not Excluding Lobsters).'' Esquire
104: 74, 1985.
- ''He
Leadeth Us from Porn: God Bless You, Edwin Meese.''
Nation 242.3: 65. 1986.
- ''Requiem:
The Hocus Pocus Laundromat.'' North American Review
271: 29-35, 1986.
- ''Can
Great Books Make Good Movies? 7 Writers Just Say No!''
American Film 12:36-40, 1987. Contributor.
-
''My Fellow
Americans: What I'd Say if They Asked Me.'' Nation
247: 53, 1988.
- ''The
Courage of Ivan Martin Jirous.'' Washington Post
A25, March 31, 1989.
- ''Slaughter
in Mozambique.'' New York Times A31, November
14, 1989.
- ''Notes
from My Bed of Gloom; or, Why the Joking Had to Stop.''
New York Times 7.14, April 22, 1990.
- ''Heinlein
Gets the Last Word.'' New York Times 7.13,
December 9, 1990. Book revew.
- ''One
Hell of a Country.'' The Guardian (London)
21, February 27, 1992. Reprinted in Ottawa Citizen
A11, August 31, 1992.
- ''America:
Right and Wrong.'' The Gazette (Montreal)
B3, September 12, 1992.
- ''Why
My Dog Is Not a Humanist.'' Humanist 52.6:5-6,
1992.
- ''Why
We Need Libraries.'' Reprinted in Utne Reader
52.6:139, 1994.
- The
Vonnegut Encyclopedia: An Authorized Compendium.
1996. Author of the foreward.
- Stories
on beer bottles. 1997. No kidding. The story, ''Merlin,''
muses on Galahad with automatic weapons. On 22-ounce
bottles of Denver Public Libation Ale from Wynkoop
Brewing Company.
- ''Bernard
Vonnegut: The Rainmaker.'' New York Times 6.17.
January 4, 1998.
- ''The
Work to Be Done.'' Rolling Stone, May 28,
1998.
- ''Old
Fashioned Gadgets.'' Forbes 266, November 30,
1998.
- ''Last
Words for a Century.'' Playboy, January
1999.
- Like
Shaking Hands with God : a Conversation about Writing.
Kurt Vonnegut & Lee Stringer; moderated by Ross
Klavan. 1999.
ADAPTATIONS
from VONNEGUT'S WORK
- Silver
Screen. Films have been made of
- ''Happy
Birthday, Wanda June'' (1971; Mark Robson, director)
- ''Slaughterhouse
Five'' (1972; George Roy Hill, director),
- ''Next
Door'' (1974)
- ''Slapstick''
(1983; Steven Paul, director)
- ''Mother
Night'' (1996; Keith Gordon, director)
- ''Breakfast
of Champions'' (Alan Rudolph, director)
- The
screenplay of ''Sirens of Titan'' is in
progress.
- Stage.
- ''Welcome
to the Monkey House'' (1970, 1974)
- ''The
Sirens of Titan'' (1974)
- ''Cat's
Cradle'' (1976)
- ''God
Bless You, Mr. Rosewater'' was produced as a musical
(1979; adapted by Howard Ashman and Alan Menkin)
and most recently was presented by HumDrum AmDram
in Portsmouth, UK.
- ''Breakfast
of Champions'' stageplay adapted by Robert Egan
(1984). Script published by Samuel French Publishers.
- Edgar
Grana's composition of ''Requiem'' (Stone, Time,
and Elements: A Humanist Requiem), based on a
Vonnegut text, was performed by the Choir of the
Unitarian Universalist Church in Buffalo, NY in
March 1988.
- ''Slaughterhouse-Five''
was staged as an opera at the Munich Opera Festival:
adapted by Hans-Jürgen von Bose, ''Schlachthof
5'' premiered at the Cuvilliès Theater
on July 1, 1996; also adapted for stage
at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre 1996.
- The
Box. TV productions have been adapted from
- ''D.P.''
(1958, produced as ''Auf Wiedersehen;'' 1985,
produced as ''Displaced Persons'')
- ''Epicac''
(1974, 1992)
- ''Who
Am I This Time?'' (1982)
- ''All
the King's Horses'' (1991)
- ''Next
Door'' (1991)
- ''The
Euphio Question'' (1991)
- ''Fortitude''
(1992)
- ''The
Foster Portfolio'' (1992)
- ''More
Stately Mansions'' (1992)
- ''Harrison
Bergeron'' (1995)
Do
you know of other Vonnegut stagings, films, adaptations,
random essays? Write
me!
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