1981 collection of previously unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Palm Sunday

First edition

Author| Kurt Vonnegut
Country| US
Language| English
Publisher| Delacorte Press

Publication date

| 1981
Media type| Print
Pages| 330
ISBN| 0-440-06593-3

Palm Sunday is a 1981 collection of short stories, speeches, essays, letters, and other previously unpublished works by author Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

## Contents[edit]

In addition to original material, Palm Sunday contains the following works (written by Vonnegut unless otherwise stated):

* "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)
* "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)

## Grades[edit]

In Chapter 18, "The Sexual Revolution," Vonnegut grades his own works. He states that the grades "do not place me in literary history" and that he is comparing "myself with myself." The grades are as follows:

* Player Piano: B
* The Sirens of Titan: A
* Mother Night: A
* Cat's Cradle: A+
* God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: A
* Slaughterhouse-Five: A+
* Welcome to the Monkey House: B−
* Happy Birthday, Wanda June: D
* Breakfast of Champions: C
* Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons: C
* Slapstick: D
* Jailbird: A
* Palm Sunday: C

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Bibliography

Novels|

* Player Piano (1952)
* The Sirens of Titan (1959)
* Mother Night (1961)
* Cat's Cradle (1963)
* God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)
* Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
* Breakfast of Champions (1973)
* Slapstick (1976)
* Jailbird (1979)
* Deadeye Dick (1982)
* Galápagos (1985)
* Bluebeard (1987)
* Hocus Pocus (1990)
* Timequake (1997)

Novellas|

* Sun Moon Star (1980)
* God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)
* We Are What We Pretend To Be: The First and Last Works (2013)

Collected short fiction|

* Canary in a Cat House (1961)
* Welcome to the Monkey House (1968)
* Bagombo Snuff Box (1999)
* Armageddon in Retrospect (2008)
* Look at the Birdie (2009)
* While Mortals Sleep (2011)
* Sucker's Portfolio (2013)
* Complete Stories (2017)

Collected non-fiction|

* Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974)
* Palm Sunday (1981)
* Fates Worse Than Death (1991)
* A Man Without a Country (2005)
* Armageddon in Retrospect (2008)
* If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice to the Young (2013)
* Kurt Vonnegut: Letters (2014)
* Vonnegut by the Dozen (2015)

Plays/screenplays|

* Fortitude (1968)
* Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970)
* Between Time and Timbuktu (1972)

Interviews|

* Like Shaking Hands with God (1999)
* Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut (1999)
* Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview (1999)

Adaptations|

* Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971)
* Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
* Between Time and Timbuktu (1972)
* Next Door (1975)
* Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1979)
* Slapstick of Another Kind (1982)
* Who Am I This Time? (1982)
* Displaced Person (1985)
* Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House (1991)
* Harrison Bergeron (1995)
* Mother Night (1996)
* Breakfast of Champions (1999)
* 2081 (2009)
* 2BR02B: To Be or Naught to Be (2016)

Characters
and concepts|

* Kilgore Trout
* Eliot Rosewater
* Rabo Karabekian
* RAMJAC
* Ilium
* Granfalloon
* Tralfamadore

Related|

* Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library
* Vonnegut (Mercury crater)

Family|

* Jill Krementz (second wife)
* Mark Vonnegut (son)
* Edith Vonnegut (daughter)
* Kurt Vonnegut Sr. (father)
* Bernard Vonnegut (brother)
* Bernard Vonnegut Sr. (grandfather)
* Clemens Vonnegut (great-grandfather)

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