Palm Sunday

By Kurt Vonnegut

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction

Subtitled An Autobiographical Collage, this 1981 book gathers Kurt Vonnegut's speeches, essays and letters and adds new autobiographical writing. He traced his family's history in Indianapolis and the German-American culture of his youth. Other pieces take up censorship, including his letter to a North Dakota school board that burned copies of Slaughterhouse-Five, and the Palm Sunday sermon that gives the book its title. He also graded each of his own novels in a report card.

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• Jocko Willink: “Vonnegut. One of my favorite authors.”