Books and Writers: Kurt Vonnegut

The Vonnegut Web The most expansive, yet wholly unauthorized, Kurt Vonnegut site in the cosmos. Here you'll find pages on each of his novels as well as all manner of detail on the man's life and work.

New York State Writer's Institute New York State Author 2001-2003

As critic Jerome Klinkowitz has observed: "Vonnegut's rise to eminence coincided with a shift in taste that brought a whole new reading public and eventually critical appreciation to the works of Richard Brautigan, Donald Barthelme, Jerzy Kosinski, and others. Ten years and several books their elder, Vonnegut by his long exile underground was well prepared to be the senior member of the new disruptive group, and the first of its numbers to be seriously considered for the Nobel Prize."

Marek Vit's Kurt Vonnegut Essay Collection

Read Kurt Vonnegut's Tribute to Richard Brautigan.

Dissertations that compare Vonnegut and Brautigan:

Hearron, William Thomas. New Approaches in the Post-Modern American Novel: Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut & Richard Brautigan. Dissertation Abstracts International 34/06A (1973): 3398A-99A. State University of New York at Buffalo, 1973.

Schroeder, Michael Leroy. "Rhetoric in New Fiction: Vonnegut, Brautigan, Barthelme, Coover?." Dissertation Abstracts International 47/09A (1986): 3430A. Kent State University, August 1986.

Articles About Kurt Vonnegut

Campbell, Patty. The Young Adult Perplex: A Review of Deadeye Dick and So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away Wilson Library Bulletin December 1982: 334-335, 365-366.

Houston, Frank. Mad Humanist: In Kurt Vonnegut's world, free will is an open question, life is poignant and pointless and kindness is appreciated above all else. Salon.com 27 Apr. 1999.

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