Kurt Vonnegut Audio & Video

Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes 'unstuck in time' after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore.

Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus....

Breakfast of Champions (1973) provides frantic, scattershot satire and a collage of Vonnegut's obsessions.

This excerpt is Kurt Vonnegut's very first public reading of the classic Breakfast of Champions, three years before it was published. Recorded May 4, 1970 at Unterberg Poetry Center of 92nd Street Y.

Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny.

One of the greatest minds in American writing, Kurt Vonnegut has left an indelible impression on literature with such inventive novels as Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions.

The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey....

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a prolific and genre-bending American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions.

"Welcome to the Monkey House" is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works.

Author Kurt Vonnegut's last sit-down interview with The Infinite Mind's John Hockenberry, recorded live in the virtual on-line community Second Life.