Armageddon in Retrospect
Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
To be published on the first anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut’s death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace, imbued with Vonnegut’s trademark rueful humor…..Read More
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Bagombo Snuff Box
New York, 1950. A young PR man working at General Electric sold his first magazine piece. By the time he'd sold his third, he decided to quit his job and… Continue Reading Posted in: American Fiction, Short Stories
Holidays on Ice
David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favorites as the diaries of a Macy's elf and… Continue Reading Posted in: Families, Fiction
Mother Night
A companion novel to "Slaughterhouse 5", covering similar themes and drawing on the author's experiences as a prisoner of war in Dresden. A black satire, it tells of an American… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary, Literature & Fiction
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
From Slapstick's "Turkey Farm" to Slaughterhouse-Five's eternity in a Tralfamadorean zoo cage with Montana Wildhack, the question of the afterlife never left Kurt Vonnegut's mind. In God Bless You, Dr.… Continue Reading Posted in: Absurdist Fiction, Artistic, Etc.), Fiction, Influence (Literary, Literary Short Stories
The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
The Eden Express describes from the inside Mark Vonnegut's experience in the late '60s and early '70s--a recent college grad; in love; living communally on a farm, with a famous… Continue Reading Posted in: Biography, Medical Psychology Pathologies, Schizophrenia
Fates Worse Than Death
Kurt Vonnegut is unquestionably a major shaper of the way the late twentieth century views itself. Now, as the 1900s stagger toward an end, Vonnegut looks back, examining the issues… Continue Reading Posted in: American, Biography, Novelists
Snuff
From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple X novel that goes where no American work of fiction has gone beforeCassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap… Continue Reading Posted in: Dark Humor, Erotic Films, Fiction, Lawyers & Criminals Humor, Motion Picture Actors And Actresses
Deadeye Dick
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, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation,… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction In English American Writers 1945 Texts, Neutron Bomb, United States
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
A paperback original, which describes a bizarre weekend through the eyes of a young broker who has just experienced a stockmarket crash. From the author of EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Financial Crises, Tarot
Jailbird
Pay attention please to the life of Walter F. Starbuck. Nineteen-hundred and Thirteen gave him the gift of life. Nineteenth-hundred and Thirty-one sent him to Harvard. Nineteen-hundred and Thirty-eight got… Continue Reading Posted in: 1972 1974, Classic Humor Fiction, Dark Humor, English Fiction, Political Fiction, Watergate Affair
Hocus Pocus
Here is the adventure of Eugene Debs Hartke. He’s a Vietnam veteran, a jazz pianist, a college professor, and a prognosticator of the apocalypse (and other things Earth-shattering). But that’s… Continue Reading Posted in: Classic American Literature, Humorous Fiction (Books)
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