The divine stupidity of Kurt Vonnegut: portrait of the novelist as bridge over troubled water / Leslie A. Fiedler -- Hurting 'til it laughs: the painful-comic science fiction stories of Kurt Vonnegut / Peter J. Reed -- It's all play-acting: authorship and identity in the novels of Kurt Vonnegut / Michelle Persell -- The paradox of "awareness" and language in Vonnegut's fiction / Loree Rackstraw -- Kurt Vonnegut's bitter fool: Kilgore Trout / Peter J. Reed -- Mother night: who's pretending? / Marc Leeds -- Mother night: fiction into film / Jerome Klinkowitz -- Vonnegut on film / Jerry Holt -- The morning after Mother night / Robert B. Weide -- The boys of Mother night / Nancy Kapitanoff -- Pilgrim's process / Eric Simenson -- In search of slaughterhouse-five / Julie A. Hibbard -- Unstuck in time: simultaneity as a foundation for Vonnegut's chrono-synclastic infundibula and other nonlinear time structures / Sharon Sieber -- The apotheosis of philanthropy: Kurt Vonnegut's God bless you, Mr. Rosewater / Donald E. Morse -- Kurt and Joe: the artistic collaboration of Kurt Vonnegut and Joe Petro III / John Dinsmore and Ollie Lyon -- More graphics by Kurt Vonnegut / Peter J. Reed.