Playboy Interview: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Playboy Interview: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.By 1962, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., had been writing novels for ten years; three had been published-"Player Piano," "The Sirens of Titan" and "Mother Night"-and nobody had ever heard of him. He didn't count. "Player Piano" had been haphazardly reviewed when it was published in 1952, because it was a first novel; and had been as haphazardly dismissed when the reviewers found out that it looked a lot like science fiction-which i...