Palm Sunday : an autobiographical collage

"Dear Mr. McCarthy" (letter)"Un-American Nonsense" (essay)"God's Law" (speech)"Dear Felix" (letter)"An Account of the Ancestry of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, by an Ancient Friend of His Family" (formal essay by John G. Raunch)"What I Liked About Cornell" (speech)"When I Lost My Innocence" (essay)"I Am Embarrassed" (speech)"How to Write with Style" (essay)Self-interview from The Paris Review"Who in America is Truly Happy?" (essay)"Something Happened" (review of Joseph Heller's novel)"The Rocky Graziano of American Letters" (speech)"The Best of Bob and Ray" (Vonnegut's introduction to a book by Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding)"James T. Farrell" (funeral speech)"Lavina Lyon" (funeral speech)"The Class of '57" (song lyric by Don and Harold Reid of the Statler Brothers)"The Noodle Factory" (speech)"Mark Twain" (speech)"How Jokes Work" (commencement address)embarrasment"Do Not Mourn!" (funeral speech by Clemens Vonnegut, written for his own funeral)"Thoughts of a Free Thinker" (commencement address)"William Ellery Channing" (speech)"The Big Space Fuck" (short story)"Fear and Loathing in Morristown, N J" (speech)"Dear Mr X" (letter by Nanette Vonnegut)"Jonathan Swift" (Vonnegut's rejected introduction to a new edition of Swift's Gulliver's Travels)"The Chemistry Professor" (treatment for a musical comedy based on Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde)"Louis-Ferdinand Céline" (Vonnegut's introduction to paperback editions of Céline's last three novels)"Dresden Revisited" (Vonnegut's introduction to a new edition of Slaughterhouse-Five)"Flowers on the Wall" (song lyric by Lew DeWitt of the Statler Brothers)"Palm Sunday" (sermon) "In this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too-human journey through life. This is a work that resonates with Vonnegut’s singular voice: the magic sound of a born storyteller mesmerizing us with truth.” From penguinrandomhouse.com An autobiographical collage from the renowned novelist includes previously unpublished articles, essays, letters, drawings, songs, and talks in which Vonnegut reflects on his life and times An autobiographical collage that includes previously unpublished articles, essays, letters, drawings, songs, and talks in which Vonnegut reflects on his life and times I AM A MEMBER of what I believe to be the last recognizable generation of full-time, life-time American novelists.