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Kurt Vonnegut

Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease.

About Me

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

My Interests

Writing, Smoking, Tragedy, Obscurity, Science Fiction, Painting, Silkscreen, Welded Sculpture, and Wood Carving.

Books:

- Between Time and Timbuktu (1975; TV manuscript based on Vonnegut Novels, Pictures by Jill Krementz)
- Bluebeard (1987)
- Breakfast of Champions; or Goodbye Blue Monday (1973)
- Canary in a Cathouse (1961; collection of short stories)
- Cat's Cradle (1963)
- Deadeye Dick (1982)
- Fates Worse Than Death (1991)
- Galapagos (1985)
- God Bless You, Mr Rosewater; or Pearls Before Swine (1965)
- Happy Birthday Wanda June (1971)
- Hocus Pocus (1990)
- Jailbird (1979)
- Mother Night (1962)
- Nothing is Lost Save Honor (1984)
- Palm Sunday (1981; an autobiographical collage)
- Player Piano (Utopia 14) (1952)
- The Sirens of Titan (1959)
- Slapstick; or Lonesome No More! (1976)
- Slaughterhouse-Five; or Children's Crusade, a Duty Dance with Death (1969)
- Sun, Moon, Star (1980; with Ivan Chermayeff)
- Timequake (1997)
- Wampeters, Foma & Granfaloons (1974)
- Welcome to the Monkey House (1968; collection of short stories) (Harrison Bergeron)