Bibliography

works by kurt vonnegut

Vonnegut, Kurt. Armageddon in Retrospect. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2008.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1999.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Between Time and Timbuktu: or, Prometheus-5, A Space Fantasy. New York: Dell Publishing, 1972.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Bluebeard. New York: Delacorte Press, 1987.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Breakfast of Champions. New York: Delacorte Press, 1973.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Cat’s Cradle. New York: Delacorte Press, 1963.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Deadeye Dick. New York: Delacorte Press, 1982.

Vonnegut, Kurt. “Despite Tough Guys, Life Is Not the Only School for Real Novelists.” New York Times, May 24, 1999.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Fates Worse than Death. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1991.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Galápagos. New York: Delacorte Press, 1985.

Vonnegut, Kurt. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater or Pearls Before Swine. New York: Delacorte Press, 1965.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Hocus Pocus. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1990.

Vonnegut, Kurt. If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?: Advice to the Young—The Graduation Speeches. Edited by Dan Wakefield. New York: Seven Stories, 2014.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Jailbird. New York: Delacorte Press, 1979.

Vonnegut, Kurt. “Kurt Vonnegut at NYU.” Radio broadcast of lecture, New York University. November 6, 1970. Pacifica Radio Archives, 1970. Copy of reel-to-reel tape, 40 minutes. https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/recording/bc1568.

Vonnegut, Kurt. The Last Interview and Other Conversations. Edited by Tom McCartan. Brooklyn: Melville House Publishing, 2011.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Letters. Edited by Dan Wakefield. New York: Delacorte Press, 2012.

Vonnegut, Kurt, and Lee Stringer. Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation About Writing. New York: Seven Stories Press, 1999.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Look At the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction. New York: Delacorte Press, 2009.

Vonnegut, Kurt. A Man without a Country. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Mother Night. New York: Harper and Row, 1961.

Vonnegut, Kurt. “Mythologies of North American Indian Nativistic Cults.” Master’s thesis, University of Chicago, 1947.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Palm Sunday. New York: Delacorte Press, 1981.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Papers. Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Player Piano. New York: Delacorte Press, 1952.

Vonnegut, Kurt. “Poems Written During the First Five Months of 2005.” Unpublished manuscript, 2005.

Vonnegut, Kurt. “The Salon Interview: Kurt Vonnegut.” By Frank Houston. Salon, October 8, 1999. https://www.salon.com/1999/10/08/vonnegut_interview.

Vonnegut, Kurt. The Sirens of Titan. New York: Delacorte Press, 1959.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Slapstick. New York: Delacorte Press, 1976.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five. New York: Delacorte Press, 1969.

Vonnegut, Kurt, and Ivan Chermayeff. Sun Moon Star. London: Hutchinson, 1980.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Timequake. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1997.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons. New York: Delacorte Press, 1974.

Vonnegut, Kurt. We Are What We Pretend to Be. New York: Vanguard Press, 2012.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Welcome to the Monkey House. New York: Delacorte Press, 1968.

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Allen, William Rodney, ed. Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1988.

Andreasen, Nancy C. “Secrets of the Creative Brain.” Atlantic, July/August 2014.

Arts Midwest. “NEA Big Read.” https://www.artsmidwest.org/programs/neabigread.

Bambara, Toni Cade. “My Man Bovanne.” In Gorilla, My Love. New York: Random House, 1972.

Bauby, Jean-Dominique. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. New York: Knopf, 1997.

Becher, Jonathan. “Gladwell vs Vonnegut on Change Specialists.” Forbes, October 14, 2014. https://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2014/10/14/gladwell-vs-vonnegut-on-change-specialists/#c445b4d46f7d.

Belluck, Pam. “For Better Social Skills, Scientists Recommend a Little Chekhov.” New York Times, October 3, 2013.

Benedict, Helen. Sand Queen. New York: Soho Press, 2012.

Blakeslee, Steve. “The Man from Slaughterhouse-Five: A Remembrance of Kurt Vonnegut.” Open Spaces: Views from the Northwest 9, no. 3 (2007).

Blaser, Martin J. Missing Microbes. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2014.

Bourjaily, Vance. “Dear Hualing.” In A Community of Writers: Paul Engle and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, edited by Robert Dana. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999.

Bradshaw, Tom, and Bonnie Nichols. Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America. Washington: National Endowment for the Arts, June 2004. https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/ReadingAtRisk.pdf.

Buonarroti, Michelangelo. “To Giovanni da Pistoia When the Author Was Painting the Vault of the Sistine Chapel.” Translated by Gail Mazur. In Zeppo’s First Wife: New and Selected Poems by Gail Mazur. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Cadenhead, Rogers. “How to Join Kurt Vonnegut’s Family.” Workbench (blog). August 16, 2010. http://watchingthewatchers.org/read/3631.

Cameron, Julie. The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1992.

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. Journey to the End of the Night. Translated by Ralph Manheim. New York: New Directions, 2006.

Cloud, John. “Inherit the Wind.” Time, April 18, 2011.

Cottonwood Gulch Expeditions website, http://www.cottonwoodgulch.org.

Cunningham, M. Allen. “Rethinking Restriction: Creative Limitation as a Positive Force.” Poets & Writers, January/February 2014.

Cunningham, Michael. “Found in Translation.” New York Times, October 2, 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/opinion/03cunningham.html.

Darrow, Barb. “Turns Out Attendance at Women’s March Events Was Bigger Than Estimated.” Fortune, July 23, 2017. http://fortune.com/2017/01/23/womens-march-crowd-estimates.

Davies, Alex. “I Rode 500 Miles in a Self-Driving Car and Saw the Future. It’s Delightfully Dull.” Wired, January 7, 2015. https://www.wired.com/2015/01/rode-500-miles-self-driving-car-saw-future-boring.

De Botton, Alain. “The True Hard Work of Love and Relationships.” On Being, August 2, 2018. http://onbeing.org/programs/alain-de-botton-the-true-hard-work-of-love-and-relationships/#.WKOB5sF5Nvw.email.

DeSalvo, Louise. Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000.

Donoso, José. Papers. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University.

Elbow, Peter. Writing Without Teachers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.

Ely, Jeffrey, Alexander Frankel, and Emir Kamenia. “The Mathematics of Suspense.” New York Times, April 26, 2015.

“Embattled: The Ramifications of War.” Special issue, Bellevue Literary Review 15, no. 2 (Fall 2015).

Finch, Nigel, dir. Kurt Vonnegut: So It Goes. Aired 1983. Princeton: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2002. DVD, 63 minutes.

Godwin, Gail. “Waltzing with the Black Crayon.” Yale Review 87, no. 1 (January 1999).

Goldberg, Natalie. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within. Boulder: Shambhala, 2016.

Goodstein, Laurie. “Serenity Prayer Stirs Up Doubt: Who Wrote It?” New York Times, July 11, 2008. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/us/11prayer.html.

Hemingway, Ernest. “The Art of Fiction No. 21.” By George Plimpton. Paris Review, no. 18, Spring 1958.

Hemingway, Ernest. “The Killers.” In The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927.

Holsen, Laura. “Donald Trump Jr. Is His Own Kind of Trump.” New York Times, March 18, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/18/stayle/donald-trump-jr-business-politics-hunting-twitter-vanessa-haydon.html.

Hotchner, A. E. Papa Hemingway. New York: Random House, 1955.

Huber, Johannes, Ernst Tremp, and Karl Schmuki. The Abbey Library of Saint Gall. Translated by Jenifer Horlent. St. Gallen: Verlag am Klosterhof, 2007. 

Humphreys, Josephine. Review of The Collected Stories, by John McGahern. New York Times, February 28, 1993.

“Indiana War Memorial Museum.” Indiana State Official Government Website. Accessed November 20, 2018. https://www.in.gov/iwm.

Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Word by Word. Iowa City: University of Iowa Printing and Mailing Services, 2011.

Jamison, Leslie. “Does Recovery Kill Great Writing?” New York Times Magazine, March 13, 2018.

Jung, C. G. “Christ, a Symbol of the Self.” In The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Complete Digital Edition Vol. 9. Part II: Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of Self. Translated by R. F. C. Hull. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1959. https://the-eye.eu/public/concen.org/Princeton%20Jung/9.2%20Aion_Researches%20into%20the%20Phenomenology%20of%20the%20Self%20%20(Collected%20Works%20of%20C.%20G.%20Jung%20Volume%209,%20Part%202).pdf.

Kelly, Kevin. “Scenius, or Communal Genius.” The Technium (blog). KK.org, June 10, 2008. https://kk.org/thetechnium/scenius-or-comm/.

Klinkowitz, Jerome. Kurt Vonnegut’s America. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009.

Klinkowitz, Jerome. The Vonnegut Statement. New York: Doubleday, 1973.

Krementz, Jill, ed. Happy Birthday, Kurt Vonnegut: A Festschrift for Kurt Vonnegut on His Sixtieth Birthday. New York: Delacorte Press, 1982.

“Kurt Vonnegut: In His Own Words.” London Times, April 12, 2007. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/kurt-vonnegut-in-his-own-words-mccg7v0g8cg.

Leegant, Joan. “Sisters of Mercy.” Bellevue Literary Review 11, no. 2 (Spring 2011).

Lehrman, Robert. “The Political Speechwriter’s Life.” New York Times, November 3, 2012. https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/the-political-speechwriters-life.

Levy, Ariel. “Catherine Opie, All-American Subversive.” New Yorker, March 13, 2017. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/catherine-opie-all-american-subversive.

“Literature and Medicine.” Maine Humanities Council. Accessed November 20, 2018. http://mainehumanities.org/program/literature-medicine-humanities-at-the-heart-of-healthcare/.

McConnell, Suzanne. “Book.” Per Contra, no. 22 (Spring 2011), http://percontra.net/archive/22mcconnell.htm.

McConnell, Suzanne. “Do Lord.” In Fence of Earth. Hamilton Review, no. 11 (Spring 2007). http://www.hamiltonstone.org/hsr11fiction.html#dolord.

McConnell, Suzanne. “Kurt Vonnegut at the Writers’ Workshop.” Brooklyn Rail, December 10, 2011. https://brooklynrail.org/2011/12/fiction/kurt-vonnegut-at-the-writers-workshop.

McConnell, Suzanne. “Spirit, You Know the Way.” Cape Women Magazine, 2002.

McConnell, Suzanne. “The Disposal.” Fiddlehead, no. 110 (Summer 1976).

McPhee, Larkin, dir. Depression: Out of the Shadows. 2008; Twin Cities Public Television, Inc. and WGBH Boston for PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/takeonestep/depression/.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Sense and Non-Sense. Translated by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Patricia Allen Dreyfus. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964.

Miller, Henry. “To Paint Is to Love Again.” New York: Grossman, 1968.

Moore, Ed, dir. Ride the Tiger: A Guide Through the Bipolar Brain. 2016; Detroit: Detroit Public Television. http://www.pbs.org/ride-the-tiger/home/.

Neubauer, Alexander, ed. Conversations on Writing Fiction: Interviews with 13 Distinguished Teaches of Fiction Writing in America. New York: Harper Collins, 1994.

Morris, David J. “After PTSD, More Trauma.” New York Times, January 17, 2015.

Offit, Sidney. “The Library of America Interviews Sidney Offit About Kurt Vonnegut.” By Rich Kelley. The Library of America e-Newsletter. New York: Library of America, 2011. https://loa-shared.s3.amazonaws.com/static/pdf/LOA_Offit_on_Vonnegut.pdf.

O’Neil, Chuck, dir. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Season 10, episode 115, “Kurt Vonnegut.” Aired September 13, 2005, on Comedy Central.

Paley, Grace. “Distance.” In Enormous Changes at the Last Minute. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1985.

Paul, Annie Murphey. “Your Brain on Fiction.” New York Times, March 17, 2012.

Perrin, Andrew. “Book Reading.” Pew Research Center, September 2016. http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/09/01/book-reading-2016.

Pinchefsky, Carol. “Wizard Oil.” Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, December 2006. http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com/cgi-bin/mag.cgi?do=columns&vol=carol_pinchefsky&article=015.

Popova, Maria. “To Paint Is to Love Again: Henry Miller on Art, How Hobbies Enrich Us, and Why Good Friends Are Essential for Creative Work.” Brain Pickings. Accessed November 27, 2017. https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/21/to-paint-is-to-love-again-henry-miller.

Price, Reynolds. Review of The Collected Stories, by William Trevor. New York Times, February 28, 1993.

Rabb, Margo. “Fallen Idols.” New York Times, July 25, 2013.

Reed, Peter, Nanette Vonnegut, and Kurt Vonnegut. Kurt Vonnegut Drawings. New York: Monacelli Press, 2014.

Reiner, Jon. “Live First, Write Later: The Case for Less Creative-Writing Schooling.” Atlantic, April 9, 2013.

Rothman, Joshua. “Virginia’s Woolf’s Idea of Privacy.” New Yorker, July 9, 2014. https://www.newyorker.com/books/joshua-rothman/virginia-woolfs-idea-of-privacy.

Sandweiss, Lee. “Historic Vonnegut Cottage on Lake Maxinkuckee Saved from Demolition.” Herald-Times (Hoosier Times), June 11, 2016. https://www.hoosiertimes.com/herald_times_online/life/at_home/historic-vonnegut-cottage-on-lake-maxinkuckee-saved-from-demolition/article_714e551a-8b26-59aa-947d-f36a2761ab40.html.

Schnabel, Julian, dir. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. 2007; Paris, France: Pathé Renn Productions, 2008. DVD.

Schultz, Kathryn. “Call and Response.” New Yorker, March 6, 2017.

Schutz, Will. Profound Simplicity. New York: Bantam, 1979.

Schwartz, Barry, and Amy Wrzesniewski. “The Secret of Effective Motivation.” New York Times, July 6, 2014.

Sheridan, Sara. “What Writers Earn: A Cultural Myth.” Huffington Post. Updated June 24, 2016. https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/sara-sheridan/writers-earnings-cultural-myth_b_3136859.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer_us=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_cs=fahUDQ-l9b4CWlw0wtpjwA.

Shields, Charles. And So It Goes. New York: Holt and Company, 2011.

Snodgrass, Dana. “Outstanding Hoosier Women Honored by Theta Sigma Phi.” Indianapolis Star, April 3, 1965.

Strand, Ginger. “How Jane Vonnegut Made Kurt Vonnegut a Writer.” New Yorker, December 3, 2015.

Sullivan, James. “A Celebration of Kurt Vonnegut on Cape Cod.” Boston Globe, October 7, 2014. https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2014/10/06/celebration-vonnegut-cape/RUegb0NmUXBmi449E5TbJI/story.html.

Sumner, Gregory. Unstuck in Time: A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut’s Life and Letters. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2011.

Thomas, Dylan. “The Orchards.” In Adventures in the Skin Trade. Cambridge: New Directions, 1969.

Tribune News Services. “Chicago Veterans Museum Acquires Kurt Vonnegut Art Prints.” Chicago Tribune, January 11, 2017. https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-chicago-veterans-museum-kurt-vonnegut-art-prints-20170111-story.html.

Truss, Lynne. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. London: Profile Books, 2003.

“The U.S. Illiteracy Rate Hasn’t Changed in 10 Years.” Huffington Post. Last modified November 27, 2017. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/06/illiteracy-rate_n_3880355.html.

Vonnegut, Mark. Just Like Someone without Mental Illness Only More So. New York: Delacorte Press, 2010.

Wakefield, Dan. “Kurt Vonnegut, Christ-Loving Atheist.” Image, no. 82. https://imagejournal.org/article/kurt-vonnegut/.

Weber, Bruce. “Jack Leggett, Who Cultivated Writers in Iowa, Dies at 97.” New York Times, January 30, 2015.

Wensink, Patrick. “My Amazon Best Seller Made Me Nothing.” Salon, March 15, 2013. https://www.salon.com/2013/03/15/hey_amazon_wheres_my_money.

Winokur, Jon, ed. W.O.W.: Writers on Writing. Philadelphia: Running Press, 1986.

“Writing Is Easy; You Just Open a Vein and Bleed.” Quote Investigator. Accessed April 9, 2019. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/09/14/writing-bleed/.

Yarrow, Alder. “So You Wanna Be a Wine Writer.” Vinography (blog). December 10, 2009. http://www.vinography.com/archives/2009/12/so_you_wanna_be_a_wine_writer.html.

Yeats, William Butler. “The Circus Animals’ Desertion.” In Selected Poems and Two Plays of William Butler Yeats. New York: Collier, 1962.