Books

• Klinkowitz, Jerome. The Vonnegut Effect. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2004.
• Morse, Donald E. Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Imagining Being an American. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003.
• Marvin, Thomas F. Kurt Vonnegut: A Critical Companion. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002.
• Boon, Kevin A., ed. At Millennium's End: New Essays on the Work of Kurt Vonnegut. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001.
• Bloom, Harold, ed. Kurt Vonnegut. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2000.
• Leeds, Marc and Peter J. Reed. Kurt Vonnegut: Images and Representations. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.
• Klinkowitz, Jerome. Vonnegut in Fact: The Public Spokesmanship of Personal Fiction. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1998.
• Boon, Kevin A. Chaos Theory and the Interpretation of Literary Texts: The Case of Kurt Vonnegut. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1997.
• Reed, Peter J. Short Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997.
• Reed, Peter J. and Marc Leeds, eds. Vonnegut Chronicles: Interviews and Essays. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996.
• Leeds, Marc. The Vonnegut Encyclopedia: An Authorized Compendium. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995.
• Broer, Lawrence R. Sanity Plea: Schizophrenia in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut. Second edition. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1994.
• Mustazza, Leonard, ed. Critical Response to Kurt Vonnegut. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994.
• Klinkowitz, Jerome. Structuring the Void: The Struggle for Subjects in Contemporary American Fiction. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992.
• Morse, Donald E. Kurt Vonnegut. San Bernardino, CA: Borgo Press, 1992.
• Allen, William Rodney. Understanding Kurt Vonnegut. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1991.
• Klinkowitz, Jerome. Slaughterhouse-Five: Reforming the Novel and the World. Boston: Twayne, 1990.
• Merrill, Robert, ed. Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1990.
• Mustazza, Leonard. Forever Pursuing Genesis: The Myth of Eden in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1990.
• Allen, William Rodney, ed. Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut. Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 1988.
• Rackstraw, Loree, ed. Draftings in Vonnegut: The Paradox of Hope. Cedar Falls, IA: University of Northern Iowa Press, 1988.
• Pieratt, Asa B., Julie Huffman-klinkowitz and Jerome Klinkowitz. Kurt Vonnegut: A Comprehensive Bibliography. North Haven, CT: Archon Books, 1987.
• Yarmolinsky, Jane Vonnegut. Angles Without Wings: A Courageous Family's Triumph over Tragedy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
• Bly, William. Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five Woodbury, NY: Barron's Educational Series, 1985.
• Klinkowitz, Jerome. Kurt Vonnegut. London: Methuen, 1982.
• Short, Robert. Something to Believe In: Is Kurt Vonnegut the Exorcist of Jesus Christ Superstar? New York: Harper & Row, 1978.
• Chernuchin, Michael, ed. Vonnegut Talks! Forest Hills, NY: Pylon Press, 1977.
• Giannone, Richard. Vonnegut: A Preface to His Novels. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1977.
• Klinkowitz, Jerome and Donald L. Lawler, eds. Vonnegut in America. New York: Delacort Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1977.
• Lundquist, James. Kurt Vonnegut. New York: Ungar, 1977.
• Mayo, Clark. Kurt Vonnegut: The Gospel from Outer Space. San Bernardino, CA: Borgo Press, 1977.
• Schatt, Stanley. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Boston: Twayne, 1976.
• Klinkowitz, Jerome and John Somer, eds. The Vonnegut Statement: Original Essays on the Life and Work of Kurt Vonnegut. New York: Delacort Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1973.
• Goldsmith, David H. Kurt Vonnegut: Fantasist of Fire and Ice. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1972.
• Reed, Peter J. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. New York: Warner Paperback Library, 1972.

Books Significantly Discussing Vonnegut

• Amiss, Martin. The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America. Penguin Books, 1987.
• Klinkowitz, Jerome. Literary Subversions. Southern Illinois Press, 1985.
• Klinkowitz, Jerome. The Self-Apparent Word. Southern Illinois Press, 1985.
• Hipkiss, Robert A. The American Absurd: Pynchon, Vonnegut, and Barth. Associated Faculty Press, 1984: 43-73.
• Hume, Kathyrn. Fantasy and Mimesis: Respsonses to Reality in Western Literature. Methuen, 1984.
• Karl, Frederick. American Fictions: 1940-1980. Harper & Row, 1983.
• Klinkowitz, Jerome. The American 1960s. Iowa State University Press, 1980.
• Klinkowitz, Jerome. The Practice of Fiction in America. Iowa State University Press, 1980.
• Warrick, Patricia S. The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction. MIT Press, 1980: 89, 125, 134-39.
• Blair, John G. The Confidence Man in Modern Fiction. Harper & Row, 1979: 14, 15, 24, 98, 99-111, 113, 132-36, 139.
• Hendin, Josephine. Vulnerable People: A View of American Fiction Since 1945. Oxford University Press, 1978.
• Dickstein, Morris. Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties. Basic Books, 1977.
• Berger, Harold L. Science Fiction and the New Dark Age. Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1976: ix, 9, 17-19, 20, 22, 25, 37, 65, 69, 77, 123, 124, 215n.
• Jones, Peter G. War and the Novelist. Univeristy of Missouri Press, 1976: 2, 203-29, 234-35.
• Kennard, Jean. Number and Nightmare: Forms of Fantasy in Contemporary Literature. Archon Books, 1975: 101-28, 131-33, 203-04.
• Ketterer, David. New Worlds for Old: The Apocalyptic Imagination, Science Fiction and American Literature. Anchor/Doubleday, 1974.
• Aldiss, Brian W. Billion Year Spree: The True History of Science Fiction. Doubleday, 1973: 258, 278-79, 313-16.
• Hassan, Ihab. Contemporary American Literature, 1945-1972. Ungar, 1973: 45-47, 65, 86.
• Kazin, Alfred. Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer. Atlantic/Little, Brown, 1973: 82-83, 86-90.
• Schultz, Max F. Black Humor Fiction in the Sixties: A Pluralistic Definition of Man and His World. Ohio University Press, 1973: 32-65.
• May, John R. Toward a New Earth: Apocalypse in the American Novel. University of Notre Dame Press, 1972: 172-200.
• Olderman, Raymond. Beyond the Waste Land: A Study of the American Novel in the Nineteen-Sixties. Yale University Press, 1972: 189-219.
• Harris, Charles, B. Contemporary American Novelists of the Absurd. College and University Press, 1971: 51-75.
• Hauck, Richard Boyd. A Cheerful Nihilism. Indiana University Press, 1971: 237-45.
• Bryant, Jerry H. The Open Decision. Free Press, 1970: 303-24.
• Walsh, Chad. From Utopia to Nightmare. Harper & Row, 1962: 85-88.

Books · Essays · Interviews

Essays & Articles

• Mustazza, Leonard. “A Darwinian Eden: Science and Myth in Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos,” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 3 (1991): 55-65.
• Mustazza, Leonard. “The Machine Within: Mechanization, Human Discontent, and the Genre of Vonnegut's Player Piano,” Papers on Language and Literature 25 (1989): 99-113.
• Jamosky, Edward and Jerome Klinkowitz. “Kurt Vonnegut's Three Mother Nights,” Modern Fiction Studies 34 (1988): 216-19.
• Meyer, William H. E. “Kurt Vonnegut: The Man with Nothing to Say,” Critique 29 (1988): 95-101.
• Mustazza, Leonard. “Tralfamadore and Milton's Eden,” Essays in Literature 13 (1986): 299-312.
• Sigman, Joseph. “Science and Parody in Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan,” Mosaic 19 (Winter 1986): 15-32.
• Zins, Daniel L. “Rescuing Science from Technocracy: Cat's Cradle and the Play of Apocalypse,” Science-Fiction Studies 13 (1986): 170-81.
• Berryman, Charles. “After the Fall: Kurt Vonnegut,” Critique 26 (1985): 96-102.
• Blackford, Russell. “Physics and Fantasy: Scientific Mysticism, Kurt Vonnegut, and Gravity's Rainbow,” Journal of Popular Culture 19 (1985): 35-44.
• Cowan, S. A. “Track of the Hound: Ancestors of Kazak in The Sirens of Titan” Extrapolation 24 (1984): 280-87.
• Gill, R. B. “Bargaining in Good Faith: The Laughter of Vonnegut, Grass, and Kundera,” Critique 25 (1984): 77-91.
• Matheson, T. J. “This Lousy Little Book: The Genesis and Development of Slaughterhouse-Five as Revealed in Chapter One,” Studies in the Novel 16 (1984): 228-40.
• Sadler, Frank. “Time and the Structure of Reality,” in The Unified Ring: Narrative Art and the Science-Fiction Novel. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1984: 73-89.
• Broer, Lawrence R. “Pilgrim's Progress: Is Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Winning His War with Machines?” in Clockwork Worlds: Mechanized Environments in Science Fiction. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1983: 137-61.
• Hoffman, Thomas P. “The Theme of Mechanization in Player Piano,” in Clockwork Worlds: Mechanized Environments in Science Fiction. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1983: 125-35.
• Segal, Howard P. “Vonnegut's Player Piano: An Ambiguous Technological Dystopia,” in No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction. Carbonvile, IL: Southern Illinois Press, 1983: 162-81.
• Vanderbilt, Kermit. “Kurt Vonnegut's American Nightmares and Utopias” in The Utopian Vision; Seven Essays on the Quincentennial of Sir Thomas More. San Diego, CA: San Diego State Univeristy Press, 1983: 137-73.
• Cooley, John. “Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.” in Savages and Naturals: Black Portraits by White Writers. Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press, 1982: 161-73.
• Hume, Kathyrn. “Vonnegut's Self-Projections: Symbolic Characters and Symbolic Fictions,” Journal of Narrative Technique 12 (1982): 177-90.
• Hume, Kathyrn. “The Heraclitan Cosmos of Kurt Vonnegut,” Papers on Language and Literature 18 (1982): 208-24.
• Hume, Kathyrn. “Kurt Vonnegut and the Myths and Symbols of Meaning,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 24 (1982): 429-47.
• McGrath, Michael J. Gargas. “Kesey and Vonnegut: The Critique of Liberal Democracy in Contemporary Literature,” in The Artist and the Political Vision. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1982: 363-83.
• Rackstraw, Loree. “Vonnegut Cosmos,” North American Review 267 (1982): 63-67.
• Wymer, Thomas L. “Machines and Meaning of Human in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.,” in Mechanical God: Machines in Science Fiction. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1982: 41-52.
• Chabot, C. Barry. “Slaughterhouse-Five and the Comforts of Indifference,” Essays in Literature 8 (1981): 45-51.
• Fiene, Donald M. “Elements of Dostoevsky in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut,” Dostoevsky Studies 2 (1981): 129-42.
• Giannone, Richard. “Violence in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut,” Thought 56 (1981): 58-76.
• Hughes, David Y. “The Ghost in the Machine: The Theme of Player Piano,” in America as Utopia. New York: Burt Franklin, 1981: 108-14.
• Stableford, Brian M. “Locked in the Slaughterhouse: The Novels of Kurt Vonnegut,” in Essays on Six Science Fiction Authors. San Bernardino, CA: Borgo Press, 1981: 15-23.
• Blackford, Russell. “The Definition of Love: Kurt Vonnegut's Slapstick,” Science Fiction 2 (1980): 208-28.
• Klinkowitz, Jerome. “Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.” in Literary Disruptions: The Making of Post-Contemporary American Fiction, Second edition. Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1980: 33-61, 232-305.
• Nadeau, Robert. “Physics and Metaphysics in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.,” Mosaic 13 (1980): 37-47.
• Pinkster, Sanford. “Fire and Ice: The Radical Cuteness of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.” in Between Two Worlds: The American Novel in the 1960's. Troy, NY: Whiston, 1980: 1-19.
• Ziegfield, Richard E. “Kurt Vonnegut on Censorship and Moral Values,” Modern Fiction Studies 26 (1980): 631-35.
• Bosworth, David. “The Literature of Awe,” Antioch Review 37 (1979): 4-26.
• Doxey, William S. “Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle,” The Explicator 37 (Summer 1979): 6.
• Irving, John. “Kurt Vonnegut and His Critics,” New Republic, 22 Sept 1979: 41-49.
• Lawing, John V., Jr. “Kurt Vonnegut: Charming Nihilisit,” Christianity Today, 14 Feb 1979: 17-20, 22.
• Rackstraw, Loree. “Vonnegut the Diviner and Other Auguries,” North American Review 264 (1979): 74-76.
• Rose, Ellen Cronan. “It's All a Joke: Science Fiction in Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan,” Literature and Psychology 29 (1979): 160-68.
• Rubens, Philip M. “Nothing's Ever Final: Vonnegut's Concept of Time,” College Literature 6 (1979): 64-72.
• Scholes, Robert. “Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle and Mother Night,” in Fabulation and Metafiction Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1979: 156-62.
• Dimeo, Stephen. “Novel into Film: So It Goes,” in The Modern American Novel and the Movies. New York: Ungar, 1978: 282-92.
• Merrill, Robert and Peter A. Scholl. “Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five: The Requirements of Chaos,” Studies in American Fiction 6 (1978): 65-76.
• Wright, Moorhead. “The Existential Adventurer and War: Three Case Studies from American Fiction,” in American Thinking about Peace and War. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1978: 101-10.
• Friedman, Melvin J. “Dislocations of Setting and Word: Notes on American Fiction Since 1950,” Studies in American Fiction 5 (1977): 79-98.
• Hayman, David. “The Jolly Mix: Notes on Techniques, Style, and Decorum in Slaughterhouse-Five,” Summary 1.2 (1977): 44-50.
• McNelly, Willis E. “Kurt Vonnegut as a Science Fiction Writer,” in Vonnegut in America. New York: Delacort Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1977: 87-96.
• Merrill, Robert. “Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions: The Conversion of Heliogabalus,” Critique 18 (1977): 99-108.
• Pütz, Manfred. “Imagination and Self-Definition” Partisan Review 44.2 (1977): 235-44.
• Schriber, Mary Sue. “Bringing Chaos to Order: The Novel Tradition and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.,” Genre 10 (1977): 283-97.
• Grossman, Edward. “Vonnegut in His Audience,” Commentary, 19 July 1976: 40-46.
• Myers, David. “Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: Morality-Myth in the Antinovel,” International Fiction Review 3 (1976): 52-56.
• O'Sullivan, Maurice J., Jr. “Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut's Anti-memoirs,” Essays in Literature 3 (1976): 44-50.
• Rackstraw, Loree. “Paradise Re-Lost.” North American Review 261 (1976): 63-64.
• Buck, Lynn. “Vonnegut's World of Comic Futility,” Studies in American Fiction 3 (1975): 181-98.
• Burhans, Clinton. “Hemingway and Vonnegut: Diminishing Vision in a Dying Age,” Modern Fiction Studies 21 (1975): 173-91.
• Gros-Louis, Doloros K. “The Ironic Christ Figure in Slaughterhouse-Five,” in Biblical Images in Literature. New York: Abingdon, 1975: 161-75.
• LeClair, Thomas. “Death and Black Humor,” Critique 17.1 (1975): 5-40.
• McGinnis, Wayne. “The Arbitrary Cycle of Slaughterhouse-Five: A Relation of Form to Theme,” Critique 17.1 (1975): 55-68.
• McGinnis, Wayne. “Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions: A Reductive Success,” Notes on Contemporary Literature 5 (1975): 6-9.
• Uphaus, Robert W. “Expected Meaning in Vonnegut's Dead-End Fiction,” Novel 8 (Winter 1975): 164-74.
• Edelstein, Arnold. “Slaughterhouse-Five: Time Out of Joint,” College Literature 1 (1974): 128-39.
• Hendin, Josephine. “Writer as Culture Hero,” Harpers, July 1974: 82-87.
• McGinnis, Wayne. “The Source and Implications of Ice-Nine in Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle,” American Notes and Queries 13 (1974): 40-41.
• Messent, Peter B. “Breakfast of Champions: The Direction of Kurt Vonnegut's Fiction,” Journal of American Studies 8 (1974): 101-14.
• Rovit, Earl. “Some Shapes in Recent American Fiction,” Contemporary Literature (Autumn 1974: 550-565.
• Farmer, Philip Jose. “The Obscure Life and Hard Times of Kilgore Trout,” in The Book of Philip Jose Farmer, New York: Daw Books, 1973: 218-31.
• Godshalk, William L. “Vonnegut and Shakespeare: Rosewater in Elsinore,” Critique 15 (1973): 37-48.
• Greiner, Donald J. “Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and the Fiction of Atrocity,” Critique 14.3 (1973): 38-51.
• Hansen, Arlen J. “The Celebration of Solipsism: A New Trend in American Fiction” Modern Fiction Studies 19 (1973): 5-15.
• Isaacs, Neil D. “Unstuck in Time: Clockwork Orange and Slaughterhouse-Five,” Literature/Film Quarterly 1 (1973): 122-31.
• Lessing, Doris. “Vonnegut's Responsibility,” New York Times Book Review, 4 Feb 1973: 35.
• Nelson, Joyce. “Vonnegut and Bugs in Amber,” Journal of Popular Culture 7 (1973): 551-58.
• Nelson, Joyce. “Slaughterhouse-Five: Novel and Film,” Literature/Film Quarterly 1 (1973): 149-53.
• Nicol, Charles. “The Ideas of an Anti-Intellectual,” National Review, 28 Sept 1973: 1064-65.
• Pauly, Rebecca M. “The Moral Stance of Kurt Vonnegut,” Extrapolation 15 (Dec 1973): 66-71.
• Todd, Richard. “Breakfast of Champions: This Novel Contains More than Twice Your Daily Requirement of Irony” Atlantic, May 1973: 105-09.
• Wakefield, Dan. “In Vonnegut's Karass” in The Vonnegut Statement: Original Essays on the Life and Work of Kurt Vonnegut. New York: Delacort Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1973: 55-70.
• Wood, Michael. “Dancing in the Dark.” New York Review of Books 20 (31 May 1973): 23-25.
• Bourjaily, Vance. “What Vonnegut Is and Isn't,” New York Times Book Review, 13 Aug 1972: 3, 10.
• Crichton, Michael. “Slaughterhouse-Five,” in The Critic as Artist: Essays on Books, 1920-1970. New York: Liveright, 1972: 100-07.
• Engel, David. “On the Question of Foma: A Study of the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.,” Riverside Quarterly 5 (Feb 1972: 119-128.
• Leverence, W. John. “Cat's Cradle and Traditional American Humor,” Journal of Popular Culture 4 (1972): 955-63.
• May, John R. “Vonnegut's Humor and the Limits of Hope,” Twentieth Century Literature 18 (1972): 25-36.
• Nelson, Gerald B. “Eliot Rosewater,” in Ten Versions of America. New York: Knopf, 1972: 61-76.
• Rice, Susan. “Slaughterhouse-Five: A Viewer's Guide,” Media and Methods, Oct 1972: 27-33.
• Wolfe, G. K. “Vonnegut and the Metaphor of Science Fiction: The Sirens of Titan,” Journal of Popular Culture 4 (1972): 964-99.
• Clancy, L. J. “If Accident Will: The Novels of Kurt Vonnegut,” Meanjon Quarterly 30 (1971): 37-45.
• DeMott, Benjamin. “Vonnegut's Otherworldy Laughter,” Saturday Review, 1 May 1971: 29-32, 38.
• Kael, Pauline. “Current Cinema,” New Yorker 46 (23 Jan 1971: 76-78.
• Kazin, Alfred. “The War Novel from Mailer to Vonnegut,” Saturday Review, 6 Feb 1971: 13-15, 36.
• Kennedy, R. C. “Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.,” Art International 15 (May 1971): 20-25.
• Klinkowitz, Jerome. “Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and the Crime of His Times,” Critique 12 (1971): 38-53.
• Leff, Leonard. “Utopia Reconstructed: Alienation in Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater,” Critique 12 (1971): 29-37.
• Leff, Leonard. “Science and Destruction in Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle,” Rectangle 46 (1971): 28-32.
• McNelly, Willis E. “Science Fiction the Modern Mythology,” in SF: The Other Side of Realism. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1971: 193-98.
• Ranley, Ernest W. “What Are People For? Man, Fate and Kurt Vonnegut,” Commonweal, 7 May 1971: 207-11.
• Samuels, Charles Thomas. “Age of Vonnegut,” New Republic, 12 Jun 1971: 30-32.
• Schatt, Stanley. “The World of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.,” Critique 3 (1971): 54-69.
• Schatt, Stanley. “The Whale and the Cross,” Southwest Review 56 (1971): 29-42.
• Scholl, Peter A. “Vonnegut's Attack upon Christiandom,” Christianity and Literature 22 (1971): 5-11.
• Schriber, Mary Sue. “You've Come a Long Way, Babbitt! From Zenith to Ilium,” Twentieth Century Literature 17 (1971): 101-106.
• Schultz, Max F. “The Unconfirmed Thesis: Kurt Vonnegut, Black Humor, and Contemporary Art,” Critique 12 (1971): 5-28.
• Tanner, Tony. “The Uncertain Messenger (Kurt Vonnegut. Jr.),” in City of Words: American Fiction 1950-1970. New York: Harper & Row, 1971: 181-201.
• (unsigned). “Vonnegut's Gospel.” Time, 95 (29 Jun 1970): 8.
• Bodtke, Richard. “Great Sorrows, Small Joys: The World of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.,” Crosscurrents 20 (Winter 1970): 120-25.
• Fiedler, Leslie A. “The Divine Stupidity of Kurt Vonnegut,” Esquire, 74 (Sept 1970): 195-7, 199-200, 202-204.
• Seelye, John. “What the Kids Are Reading,” New Republic, 17 Oct 1970: 23-26.
• Coffey, W. “Gentleness and a Stylish Sense of the Ridiculous,” Commonweal, 6 June 1969: 347-348.
• Crichton, J. M. “Sci-Fi and Vonnegut” New Republic, 26 Apr 1969: 33-35.
• Hicks, Granville. “Literary Horizons,” Saturday Review, 52 (29 Mar 1969): 25.
• Scholes, Robert. “Slaughterhouse-Five,” New York Times Book Review, 6 Apr 1969: 1, 23.
• Ciardi, John. “Manner of Speaking,” Saturday Review, 30 Sept 1967: 16, 18.
• Scholes, Robert. “Fabulation and Satire,” in The Fabulators. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967: 35-55.
• Schultz, Max F. “Black Humor” Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century Ungar, 1967: 45-49.
• Bryan, C.D.B. “Kurt Vonnegut on Target,” New Republic, 8 Oct 1966: 21-22, 24-26.
• Scholes, Robert. “Mithridates, He Died Old: Black Humor and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.,” The Hollins Critic 3 (16 Oct 1966): 1-12.
• Weales, Gerald. “Whatever Happened to Tugboat Annie?” Reporter 35 (1 Dec 1966: 50, 52-56.

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Interviews & Chats

• Bleifuss, Joel. “Kurt Vonnegut vs. the !&#*!@,” In These Times, 27 Jan 2003: inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=38_0_4_0_M.
• Rentilly, J. “The Best Jokes Are Dangerous: An Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, Part One,” McSweeney's Internet Tendency: McSweeney's Quarterly, 16 Sep 2002: www.mcsweeneys.net/2002/09/16vonnegut1.html.
• Blazejewski, Christopher R. “Vonnegut Unbound,” Harvard Crimson, 12 May 2000: www.thecrimson.com.
  • See posted interviews.
• Workman, Michael. “Interview with Kurt Vonnegut,” Bridge Magazine, Nov 2000: www.bridgemagazine.org/9_02special/vonnegut.html.
• Feldman, Michael.  “Michael Interviews Kurt Vonnegut,” Whad'Ya Know? 2 Oct 1999: www.notmuch.com/Features/Interview/1999/10.02.html.
• Houston, Frank. “Salon Interview: Kurt Vonnegut,” Salon.com, 8 Oct 1999: www.salon.com/books/int/1999/10/08/vonnegut_interview/.
• Uricchio, Marylynn. “Breakfast with Kurt Vonnegut,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9 Nov 1998: www.post-gazette.com.
  • See posted interviews.
• Stage, Wm. “Mississippi Mud: God Help You Mr. Rosewater,” Riverfront Times, 5 Mar 1997: riverfronttimes.com .
  • See posted interviews.
• Kornbluth, Jesse and Robert Weide. “Vonnegut on AOL” AOL.com, 22 Nov 1996: www.finelinefeatures.com/mnight/aol_qa.htm.
• Freedman, David and Sara Schafer “Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology” Inc., Dec 1995: 4.
  • See posted interviews.
• Mallorey, Carole. “The Joe and Kurt Show,” Playboy, May 1992: 86-88, 130-35.
  • See posted interviews.
• Bellamy, Joe David and John Casey. “Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.” in The New Fiction: Interviews with Innovative American Writers. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1988: 194-207.
  • Reprinted in Allen 1988: 156-167.
• Gross, Terry. “Interview: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.,” Applause, Mar 1987: 18-21.
• Nuwer, Hank. “A Skull Session with Kurt Vonnegut,” South Carolina Review 19.2 (Spring 1987): 2-23.
  • Reprinted in Allen 1998: 240-264
• Merryman, Kathleen. “Vonnegut Blasts America's Lack of Idealism,” Tacoma News Tribune, 26 Apr 1985: C10.
• Schumacher, Michael. “Vonnegut on Writing,” Writer's Digest, Nov 1985: 22, 27.
• Diskey, Jay A. “Vonnegut Cradles His Fiction in Imagination and Experience,” Indiana Student Daily, 5 Oct 1983: 1, 6.
• Kakutani, Michiko. “Publishing,” New York Times, 16 Jan 1981: C4.
• Swaim, Don. “Audio Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.” in Wired for Books. Athens, OH: Ohio University Telecommunications Center, 1981: wiredforbooks.org/kurtvonnegut/.
• Musil, Robert K. “There Must Be More to Love Than Death: A Conversation with Kurt Vonnegut.” Nation, 2 Aug 1980: 128-32.
  • Reprinted in Allen 1998: 230-239
• Reilly, Charlie. “Two Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut,” College Literature 7 ( 1980): 1-29.
  • Reprinted in Allen 1998: 196-229
• Klinkowitz, Jerome. “Lonesome No More: Interview with Kurt Vonnegut,” Washington Post World, 2 Sept 1979: 7.
• Romine, Dannye. “Listening to Kurt Vonnegut, Higgledly-Piggledly,” Charlotte Observer-Sun, 18 Feb 1979: 1F, 8F.
• Short, Robert. “Robert Short Interviews Kurt Vonnegut, Chicago -- June 8, 1976,” in Something to Believe In: Is Kurt Vonnegut the Exorcist of Jesus Christ Superstar? New York: Harper & Row, 1978: 283-308.
• Eckholt, Larry. “Vonnegut Vows to Survive Critics,” Des Moines Register, 2 Apr 1977: 1B.
• Hayman, David, David Michaelis and George Plimpton. “The Art of Fiction LXIV: Kurt Vonnegut,” Paris Review 69 ( 1977): 55-103.
  • Reprinted in Allen 1998: 168-195
• Dunlop, Frank. “God and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. at Iowa City,” Chicago Tribune Magazine, 7 May 1976: 48, 84, 86, 88.
• Friedenreich, Kenneth. “Kurt Vonnegut: The PR Man Turned Novelist,” Newsday, 11 Aug 1975.
• Cargas, Harry James. “Are There Things a Novelist Shouldn't Joke About?” Christian Century, 24 Nov 1974: 1048-50.
  • See posted interviews.
• Mitchell, Greg. “Meeting My Maker: A Visit with Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., by Kilgore Trout,” Crawdaddy, 1 Apr 1974: 42-51.
  • See posted interviews.
  • Reprinted in Allen 1998: 133-155
• Horwitz, Carey. “An Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.,” Library Journal, 15 Apr 1973: 1311.
• McLaughlin, Frank. “An Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.,” Media and Methods, May 1973: 38-41, 45-46.
  • Reprinted in Allen 1998: 66-75
• Scholes, Robert. “A Talk with Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.,” The Vonnegut Statement: Original Essays on the Life and Work of Kurt Vonnegut. Delacort Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1973: 90-118.
  • Reprinted in Allen 1998: 111-132
• Standish, David. “Playboy Interview,” Playboy, 20.7 (Jul 1973): 57-60, 62, 68, 70, 72, 214, 216.
  • Reprinted in Allen 1998: 76-110
• Hickey, Neil. “Between Time and Timbuktu,” TV Guide 11 Mar 1972: 24-26.
• Noble, William, T. “Unstuck in Time… a Real Kurt Vonnegut: The Reluctant Guru of Searching Youth,” Detroit Sunday News Magazine, 18 Jun 1972: 14-15, 18, 20, 22-24.
  • Reprinted in Allen 1998: 57-65
• Wolf, William. “Kurt Vonnegut: Still Dreaming of Imaginary Worlds,” Insight: Sunday Journal of the Milwaukee Journal, 28 Feb 1972: 12-18.
• (unsigned). “The Conscience of a Writer,” Publishers' Weekly, 199 (22 Mar 1971): 26-27.
  • Reprinted in Allen 1988: 42-45.
• Clancy, L. J. “If Accident Will: The Novels of Kurt Vonnegut,” in Meanjin Quarterly   1971): 37-45.
  • Allen 1991: ''Good early study recognizing the development of Vonnegut's work to the culmination of Slaughterhouse-Five.
  • Reprinted in Allen 1988: 46-56.
• Heffernan, Harold. “Vonnegut Likes a Change of Scenery,” Star-Ledger, 8 Jun 1971: 26.
• Mahoney, Lawrence. “Poison Their Minds with Humanity,” Tropic: The Miami Herald Sunday Magazine, 24 Jan 1971: 8-10, 13, 44.
• Thomas, Phil. “Growing Sales Puzzle Writer,” Ann Arbor News, 12 Dec 1971: 41.
• Todd, Richard. “The Masks of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.,” New York Times Magazine, 24 Jan 1971: 16, 17, 19, 22, 24, 26, 30.
  • Reed 1972: ''notes [K.V.'s] intention to write no more novels.''
  • Reprinted in Allen 88: 30-40.
• Troy, Carol. “Carol Troy Interviews Kurt Vonnegut,” Rags, Mar 1971: 24-26.
• Unger, Art. “Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: Class of 71,” Ingenue, Dec 1971: 14-18.
• (unsigned). “Vonnegut's Gospel.” Time, 95 (29 Jun 1970): 8.
• (unsigned). “We Talk to… Kurt Vonnegut,” Mademoiselle, Aug 1970: 296.
• Banks, Ann. “Symposium Sidelights,” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 3 ( 1970): 208-11.
• Bosworth, Patricia. “To Vonnegut, the Hero Is the Man Who Refuse to Kill,” New York Times, 25 Oct 1970: D5.
  • Schatt 1976: ''Background of Happy Birthday, Wanda June and Vonnegut's feelings about writing plays.''
• Cook, Bruce. “When Kurt Vonnegut Talks -- and He Does -- the Young All Tune,” National Observer, 12 Oct 1970: 2.
• Gussow, Mel. “Vonnegut Is Having Fun Doing a Play,” New York Times, 6 Oct 1970: 56.
  • Reprinted in Allen 1998: 23-25
• Henkle, Roger. “Wrestling (American Style) with Proetus,” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 3.3 (Spring 1970): 197-207.
• Kramer, Carol. “Kurt's College Cult Adopts Him as Literary Guru at 48,” Chicago Tribune, 15 Nov 1970: 5.1.
  • Reprinted in Allen 1998: 26-29
• McCabe, Loretta. “An Exclusive Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.,” Writers Yearbook -- 1970. 1970: 92-95, 100-101, 103-105.
• Reasoner, Harry. “60 Minutes,” CBS News Transcript, 15 Sep 1970: 14-17.
  • Reprinted in Allen 1998: 15-19.
• Saal, Rollene, W. “Pick of the Paperbacks,” Saturday Review, 53 (28 Mar 1970): 34.
• Abramson, Marcia. “Vonnegut: Humor with Suffering,” The Michigan Daily, 22 Jan 1969: 2.
• Bryan, C.D.B. “Kurt Vonnegut: Head Bokononist,” New York Times Book Review, 6 Apr 1969: 2, 25.
  • Reprinted in Allen 1988: 3-6.
• Casey, John. “Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: A Subterranean Conversation,” Confluence 2 (Spring 1969: 3-5.
• Johnson, A. “Authors and Editors,” in Publishers' Weekly,   1969): 20-21.
• Okrent, Daniel. “A Very New Kind of WIR,” The Michigan Daily, 21 Jan 1969: 1-2.
• Okrent, Daniel. “The Short, Sad Stay of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.,” The Michigan Daily, 25 Jan 1969: 2.
• Schenker, Israel. “Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Lights Comic Path of Despair,” New York Times, 21 Mar 1969: 1.41.
  • Reprinted in Allen 1998: 20-22
• Sheed, Wilfrid. “The Now Generation Knew Him When,” Life 67 (12 Sep 1969): 64-66, 69.
  • Reprinted in Allen 1998: 11-14
• Taylor, Robert. “Kurt Vonnegut,” Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, 20 Jul 1969: 10-12, 14-15.
  • Reprinted in Allen 1998: 7-10