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1981 collection of previously unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Palm Sunday is a 1981 collection of short stories, speeches, essays, letters, and other previously unpublished works by
Kurt Vonnegut .
Contents
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
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:
Novels Novellas Collected short fiction Collected non-fiction Plays/screenplays Interviews Adaptations Characters and concepts Related Family