Books Without Limits

Kurt Vonnegut passed away early today from complications related to injuries he sustained in a fall at his home a few weeks ago. He was 84 years old. The author has been an American icon for decades, writing several modern classics such as Slaughterhouse-Five and constantly pushing the bounds of thought.

Complete Works

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

• Canary in a Cathouse. 1961. All stories from Canary are reprinted in Welcome to the Monkey House with the exception of “Hal Irwin’s Magic Lamp.”
• Welcome to the Monkey House: A Collection of Short Works. 1968.
• Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction. 1999.

PLAYS, WORKS for TELEVISION, ADAPTATIONS by KV

• ”Penelope.” 1960. Later revised as ‘‘Happy Birthday, Wanda June,” 1970.
• ”Between Time and Timbuktu; or, Prometheus Five: A Space Fantasy.” National Educational Television Network. 1972.
• ”Make Up Your Mind.” c. 1993.
• ”Miss Temptation.” Edited by David Coperman. 1993.
• ‘‘L’Histoire du Soldat.” 1993, 1997. Adaptation.

COLLECTED ESSAYS and SUCH

• Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons: (Opinions). 1974.
• Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage. 1981.
• Nothing Is Lost Save Honor: Two Essays. 1984. Contains “The Worse Addiction of Them All” and “Fates Worse than Death: Lecture at St. John the Divine, New York City, May 23, 1982.”
• Fates Worse than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s. 1991.
• God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian. 1999.

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)

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