Kurt Vonnegut

Breakfast of Champions (1973) provides frantic, scattershot satire and a collage of Vonnegut's obsessions....

Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness....

A collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works....

The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey....

Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a little person as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer.

American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal....

I had an uncle who left his hometown and the family business there to become a fine actor. His talent was a minor one, but a pretty one. It lasted for 15 years and was gone....

Eugene Debs Hartke describes an odyssey from college professor to prison inmate to prison warden back again to prisoner....

Galapagos takes the listener back one million years to A.D. 1986....

Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus....

Master storyteller and satirist Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most in-demand commencement speakers of his time....

In the 1950s and early 1960s, before television reigned preeminent, Kurt Vonnegut's short stories...

The story centers on brother and sister twins, children of Wilbur Swain, who are in sympathetic and (possibly) telepathic communication....

Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors - a double murder....

Eliot Rosewater, a drunk volunteer fireman and president of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation, is about to attempt a noble experiment....

A new crop of writers emerged from the dawning of the nuclear age, grappling with humankind's place in the universe....

The corridor of the Fine Arts Building was deserted, save for two figures at the far end, two men approaching slowly. Rose was about to go into the classroom, where she'd left her purse....

Meet Rabo Karabekian, a moderately successful surrealist painter who we meet late in life and see struggling....

From the beloved author of Slaughterhouse-Five an Cat's Cradle comes Kurt Vonnegut's Timequake--“Wry and trenchant...highly entertaining.”—The New York Times Book Review According to Kurt Vonnegut's alter ego, the old science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur on...

The art and craft of writing by one of the few grandmasters of American literature, a bonanza for writers and listeners written by Kurt Vonnegut's former student....