Vonnegut Chronicles

PETER J. REED, Professor of English and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, wrote the first book-length treatment of Vonnegut in 1972, Writers for the 70s:Kurt Vonnegut. His biographical sketches of Vonnegut appear in such standard works as the Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, the Dictionary of American Literary Biography, Magill's Survey of American Literature, and Postmodern Fiction:A Bio-Bibliographical Guide.MARC LEEDS has directed computer-based writing programs at East Tennessee State University and Shawnee State University. He is now a freelance writer and author of The Vonnegut Encyclopedia: An Authorized Compendium (Greenwood, 1995).

• PrefaceChronologyIntroductionThree Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut: With Peter Reed, New York, 1982; With Zoltán Abádi-Nagy, New York, 1989; With Peter Reed and Marc Leeds, Lexington, 1993The Responsive Shaman: Kurt Vonnegut and His World by Peter ReedKurt Vonnegut: Public Spokesman by Jerome KlinkowitzKurt Vonnegut as a German American by Robert MerrillBokononism as a Structure of Ironies by Zoltá Abádi-NadjBeyond the Slaughterhouse: Tralfamadorian Reading Theory in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut by Marc LeedsJailbird: A Postmodern Fairy Tale by Kay NelsonThe Family Theme in Kurt Vonnegut's Slapstick by Peter ReedDancing with the Muse in Vonnegut's Later Novels by Lorre RackstrawVonnegut's Invented Religions by Peter FreeseBluebeard and Abstract Expressionsim by Cliff McCarthyHartke's Hearing: Vonnegut's Heroes on Trial by Lawrence BroerA Selected Bibliography, 1985-1992 by Peter Reed and Paul BaeplerAppendix: The Graphics of Kurt VonnegutIndex