Interviews

  • Abádi-Nagy, Zoltán. “‘Serenity,’ ‘Courage,’ ‘Wisdom’: A Talk with Kurt Vonnegut.” Hungarian Studies in English 22 (1991): 23-37.
  • Abramson, Marcia.  “Vonnegut: Humor with Suffering.”  Michigan Daily 22 Jan. 1969: 2.
  • Banks, Ann.  “Symposium Sidelights.”  Novel: A Forum on Fiction 3.3 (1970): 208-11.
  • Bellamy, Joe David, and John Casey. “Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.”  The New Fiction: Interviews with Innovative American Writers. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1988. 194-207. Allen 156-67.
  • Blazejewski, Christopher R.  “Vonnegut Unbound.”  Harvard Crimson. 12 May 2000. http://www.thecrimson.com.
  • Bleifuss, Joel.  “Kurt Vonnegut vs. the !&#*!@.”  In These Times. 27 Jan. 2003. http://www.inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=38_0_4_0_M.
  • Bosworth, Patricia.  “To Vonnegut, the Hero Is the Man Who Refuses to Kill.”  New York Times 25 Oct. 1970: D5.
  • Brinkley, Douglas. “Vonnegut’s Apocalypse.” Rolling Stone 24 Aug. 2006: 77-110.
  • Bryan, C.D.B.  “Kurt Vonnegut: Head Bokononist.”  New York Times Book Review 6 Apr. 1969: 2, 25. Allen 3-6.
  • Cargas, Harry James.  “Are There Things a Novelist Shouldn’t Joke About?”  Christian Century 24 Nov. 1974: 1048-50.
  • Casey, John.  “Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: A Subterranean Conversation.”  Confluence 2 (1969): 3-5.
  • Clancy, L. J.  “If Accident Will: The Novels of Kurt Vonnegut.” Meanjin Quarterly (1971): 37-45.
  • “The Conscience of a Writer.”  Publishers’ Weekly 22 Mar. 1971: 26-7. Allen 42-5.
  • Cook, Bruce.  “When Kurt Vonnegut Talks — and He Does — the Young All Tune.”  National Observer 12 Oct. 1970: 2.
  • Diskey, Jay A.  “Vonnegut Cradles His Fiction in Imagination and Experience.”  Indiana Student Daily 5 Oct. 1983: 1, 6.
  • Dunlop, Frank.  “God and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. at Iowa City.”  Chicago Tribune Magazine 7 May 1976: 48, 84, 86, 88.
  • Eckholt, Larry.  “Vonnegut Vows to Survive Critics.”  Des Moines Register 2 Apr. 1977: 1B.
  • Feldman, Michael.  “Michael Interviews Kurt Vonnegut.”  Whad’Ya Know? 2 Oct. 1999. http://www.notmuch.com/Features/Interview/1999/10.02.html.
  • Freedman, David, and Sara Schafer.  “Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology.”  Inc. Dec. 1995: 4.
  • Friedman, Roger. “God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut: The Writer on His Eightieth Birthday.” Fox News 11 Nov. 2002. http://www.vonnegutweb.com/vonnegutia/interviews/int_fox.html.
  • Friedenreich, Kenneth.  “Kurt Vonnegut: The PR Man Turned Novelist.”  Newsday 11 Aug. 1975.
  • Gross, Terry.  “Interview: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.”  Applause Mar. 1987: 18-21.
  • Gussow, Mel.  “Vonnegut Is Having Fun Doing a Play.”  New York Times 6 Oct. 1970: 56. Allen 23-5.
  • Hayman, David, David Michaelis, and George Plimpton.  “The Art of Fiction LXIV: Kurt Vonnegut.”  Paris Review 69 (1977): 55-103. Allen 168-95.
  • Heffernan, Harold.  “Vonnegut Likes a Change of Scenery.”  Star-Ledger 8 June 1971: 26.
  • Henkle, Roger.  “Wrestling (American Style) with Proetus.”  Novel: A Forum on Fiction 3.3 (1970): 197-207.
  • Hickey, Neil.  “Between Time and Timbuktu.”  TV Guide 11 Mar. 1972: 24-6.
  • Horwitz, Carey.  “An Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.”  Library Journal 15 Apr. 1973: 1311.
  • Houston, Frank.  “Salon Interview: Kurt Vonnegut.”  Salon.com. 8 Oct. 1999. http://www.salon.com/books/int/1999/10/08/vonnegut_interview/.
  • Imamura, Tateo. “Vonnegut in Tokyo: An Interview with Kurt Vonnegut.” Eigo Seinen 130 (1984): 262-6.
  • Kakutani, Michiko.  “Publishing.”  New York Times 16 Jan. 1981: C4.
  • Klinkowitz, Jerome.  “Lonesome No More: Interview with Kurt Vonnegut.”  Washington Post World 2 Sept. 1979: 7.
  • Kornbluth, Jesse, and Robert Weide.  “Vonnegut on AOL.”  AOL.com. 22 Nov .1996. http://www.finelinefeatures.com/mnight/aol_qa.htm.
  • Kramer, Carol.  “Kurt’s College Cult Adopts Him as Literary Guru at 48.”  Chicago Tribune 15 Nov. 1970: 5.1. Allen 26-9.
  • Mahoney, Lawrence.  “Poison Their Minds with Humanity.”  Tropic: The Miami Herald Sunday Magazine 24 Jan. 1971: 8-10, 13, 44.
  • Mallorey, Carole.  “The Joe and Kurt Show.”  Playboy May 1992: 86-8, 130-35.
  • McCabe, Loretta.  “An Exclusive Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.”  Writers Yearbook — 1970 (1970): 92-5, 100-01, 103-5.
  • McLaughlin, Frank.  “An Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.”  Media and Methods May 1973: 38-41, 45-6. Allen 66-75.
  • Merryman, Kathleen.  “Vonnegut Blasts America’s Lack of Idealism.”  Tacoma News Tribune 26 Apr. 1985: C10.
  • Mitchell, Greg.  “Meeting My Maker: A Visit with Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., by Kilgore Trout.”  Crawdaddy 1 Apr. 1974: 42-51. Allen 133-55.
  • Musil, Robert K.  “There Must Be More to Love Than Death: A Conversation with Kurt Vonnegut.”  Nation 2 Aug. 1980: 128-32. Allen 230-39.
  • Noble, William, T.  “Unstuck in Time… A Real Kurt Vonnegut: The Reluctant Guru of Searching Youth.”  Detroit Sunday News Magazine 18 June 1972: 14-15, 18, 20, 22-4. Allen 57-65.
  • Nuwer, Hank.  “A Skull Session with Kurt Vonnegut.”  South Carolina Review 19.2 (1987): 2-23. Allen 240-64.
  • Okrent, Daniel.  “The Short, Sad Stay of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.”  The Michigan Daily 25 Jan. 1969: 2.
  • Okrent, Daniel.  “A Very New Kind of WIR.”  The Michigan Daily 21 Jan. 1969: 1-2.
  • Reasoner, Harry.  “60 Minutes.”  CBS News Transcript 15 Sep. 1970: 14-17. Allen 15-19.
  • Reilly, Charles. “An Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.” Delaware Literary Review (U of Delaware) (1976): 20-27.
  • Reilly, Charlie.  “Two Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut.”  College Literature 7 (1980): 1-29. Allen 196-229.
  • Rentilly, J.  “The Best Jokes Are Dangerous: An Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, Part One.”  McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: McSweeney’s Quarterly. 16 Sep. 2002. http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2002/09/16vonnegut1.html.
  • Romine, Dannye.  “Listening to Kurt Vonnegut, Higgledly-Piggledly.”  Charlotte Observer-Sun 18 Feb. 1979: 1F, 8F.
  • Saal, Rollene W.  “Pick of the Paperbacks.”  Saturday Review 28 Mar. 1970: 34.
  • Schenker, Israel.  “Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Lights Comic Path of Despair.”  New York Times 21 Mar. 1969: 1.41. Allen 20-22.
  • Scholes, Robert.  “A Talk with Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.”  The Vonnegut Statement: Original Essays on the Life and Work of Kurt Vonnegut. Delacort P, 1973. 90-118. Allen 111-32.
  • Schumacher, Michael.  “Vonnegut on Writing.”  Writer’s Digest Nov. 1985: 22, 27.
  • Sheed, Wilfrid.  “The Now Generation Knew Him When.”  Life 12 Sep. 1969: 64-6, 69. Allen 11-14.
  • Short, Robert.  “Robert Short Interviews Kurt Vonnegut, Chicago — June 8, 1976.” Something to Believe In: Is Kurt Vonnegut the Exorcist of Jesus Christ Superstar? New York: Harper & Row, 1978. 283-308.
  • Stage, Wm.  “Mississippi Mud: God Help You Mr. Rosewater.”  Riverfront Times. 5 Mar. 1997. http://www.riverfronttimes.com.
  • Standish, David.  “Playboy Interview.”  Playboy July 1973: 57-60, 62, 68, 70, 72, 214, 216. Allen 76-110.
  • Swaim, Don.  “Audio Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.”  Wired for Books. Athens: Ohio U Telecommunications Center, 1981. http://www.wiredforbooks.org/kurtvonnegut/.
  • Taylor, Robert.  “Kurt Vonnegut.”  Boston Globe Sunday Magazine 20 July 1969: 10-12, 14-15. Allen 7-10.
  • Thomas, Phil.  “Growing Sales Puzzle Writer.”  Ann Arbor News 12 Dec. 1971: 41.
  • Todd, Richard.  “The Masks of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.”  New York Times Magazine 24 Jan. 1971: 16-17, 19, 22, 24, 26, 30.
  • Troy, Carol.  “Carol Troy Interviews Kurt Vonnegut.”  Rags Mar. 1971: 24-6.
  • Unger, Art.  “Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: Class of 71.”  Ingenue Dec. 1971: 14-18.
  • Uricchio, Marylynn.  “Breakfast with Kurt Vonnegut.”  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 9 Nov. 1998. http://www.post-gazette.com.
  • “Vonnegut’s Gospel.”  Time 29 June 1970: 8.
  • “We Talk to… Kurt Vonnegut.”  Mademoiselle Aug. 1970: 296.
  • Wolf, William.  “Kurt Vonnegut: Still Dreaming of Imaginary Worlds.”  Insight: Sunday Journal of the Milwaukee Journal 28 Feb. 1972: 12-18.
  • Workman, Michael.  “Interview with Kurt Vonnegut.”  Bridge Magazine. Nov. 2000. http://www.bridgemagazine.org/9_02special/vonnegut.html.
  • Zuckerman, Alicia. “Life During Wartime: Kurt Vonnegut Talks About his ‘Desecration’ of Stravinsky’s Romanticized The Soldier’s Tale.” New York 3 April 2006: 83.