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== On peepholes == == On peepholes ==
In some of Kurt Vonnegut's novels, when somebody [[death|dies]], Vonnegut does not call it dying. He writes that this person had their "[[peephole]] closed" and when they are born, they simply have their "peephole opened". In some of Kurt Vonnegut's novels, when somebody [[death|dies]], Vonnegut does not call it dying. He writes that this person had their "[[peephole]] closed" and when they are born, they simply have their "peephole opened".
 +==Bibliography==
 +The following is a complete list of literary works by the late author [[Kurt Vonnegut]].
 +
 +===Novels===
 +* ''[[Player Piano (novel)|Player Piano]]'' (1952) ISBN 978-1-14-183422-8 - published as ''Utopia 14'' in 1954, published again as ''Player Piano'' in 1966
 +* ''[[The Sirens of Titan]]'' (1959) ISBN 0-385-28923-5
 +* ''[[Mother Night]]'' (1961) ISBN 0-385-33414-1
 +* ''[[Cat's Cradle]]'' (1963) ISBN 0-385-33348-X
 +* ''[[God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater|God bless you, Mr. Rosewater]]''; or, ''Pearls Before Swine'' (1965) ISBN 0-385-28335-0
 +* ''[[Slaughterhouse-Five]]'' (1969) ISBN 0-385-31208-3
 +* ''[[Breakfast of Champions]]''; or, ''Goodbye Blue Monday!'' (1973) ISBN 0-385-28089-0
 +* ''[[Slapstick (novel)|Slapstick]]''; or, ''Lonesome No More!'' (1976) ISBN 0-385-28944-8
 +* ''[[Jailbird]]'' (1979) ISBN 0-385-28627-9
 +* ''[[Deadeye Dick]]'' (1982) ISBN 0-440-01780-7
 +* ''[[Galápagos (novel)|Galápagos: A Novel]]'' (1985) ISBN 0-385-29420-4
 +* ''[[Bluebeard (novel)|Bluebeard The Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916-1988)]]'' (1987) ISBN 0-385-29590-1
 +* ''[[Hocus Pocus (novel)|Hocus Pocus]]'' (1990) ISBN 0-399-13799-8
 +* ''[[Timequake]]'' (1997) ISBN 0-399-13737-8
 +<!-- Removed from list of novels, needs to be placed elsewhere:
 +* 1980 God bless you, Mr. Rosewater / book and lyrics by Howard Ashman ; music by Alan Menken ; additional lyrics by Dennis Green.
 +* 1980 Sun, moon, star ; [ill. by] Ivan Chermayeff.
 +* 1999 Like shaking hands with God : a conversation about writing / Kurt Vonnegut & Lee Stringer ; moderated by Ross Klavan ; foreword by Daniel Simon ; photos by Art Shay.
 +-->
 +===Collections===
 +* ''[[Canary in a Cathouse]]'' (1961) - short stories
 +* ''[[Welcome to the Monkey House]]'' (1968) - short stories
 +* ''[[Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons|Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (opinions)]]'' (1974) - essays, assorted works
 +* ''[[Palm Sunday (book)|Palm Sunday]]'' (1981) - short stories, essays, assorted works
 +* ''Nothing is lost save honor'' (1984) - essays
 +* ''[[Fates Worse than Death|Fates Worse than Death : an Autobiographical Collage]]'' (1990) ISBN 978-0-42-513406-1 of the 1980s - essays, assorted works
 +* ''[[Bagombo Snuff Box]]'' (1999) ISBN 0-399-14505-2 - short stories
 +* ''[[God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian]]'' (1999) - fictional interviews
 +* ''[[A Man Without a Country]]'' (2005) ISBN 1-58322-713-X, ISBN 0-7475-8406-0 - essays, edited by Daniel Simon
 +
 +===Articles ===
 +''[[In These Times]]'' Magazine: {{cite news |title=Susan Sontag and Arthur Miller |author=Kurt Vonnegut |date=2005-03-03 |publisher=[[In These Times]] |url=http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/1999/ |accessdate=2007-04-11}}
 +
 +=== Plays ===
 +*''Penelope'' (1960) - revised as ''[[Happy Birthday, Wanda June]]'' in 1970
 +* ''[[Between Time and Timbuktu]]''; or, ''Prometheus-5: a Space Fantasy'' (1972) - National Educational Television Network. Based on materials by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Designed by Joel Schick with photos. by Jill Krementz and from the NET playhouse production.
 +* ''Requiem'' (1987) - music by Edgar David Grana
 +*''Make Up Your Mind'' (1993)
 +* ''Miss Temptation'' (1993) - adapted by David Cooperman
 +* ''[[L'Histoire du Soldat]]'' (1993) - an adaptation
 +
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and dystopian science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of Champions (1973).

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On peepholes

In some of Kurt Vonnegut's novels, when somebody dies, Vonnegut does not call it dying. He writes that this person had their "peephole closed" and when they are born, they simply have their "peephole opened".

Bibliography

The following is a complete list of literary works by the late author Kurt Vonnegut.

Novels

Collections

Articles

In These Times Magazine: Template:Cite news

Plays

  • Penelope (1960) - revised as Happy Birthday, Wanda June in 1970
  • Between Time and Timbuktu; or, Prometheus-5: a Space Fantasy (1972) - National Educational Television Network. Based on materials by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Designed by Joel Schick with photos. by Jill Krementz and from the NET playhouse production.
  • Requiem (1987) - music by Edgar David Grana
  • Make Up Your Mind (1993)
  • Miss Temptation (1993) - adapted by David Cooperman
  • L'Histoire du Soldat (1993) - an adaptation



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