Fates Worse Than Death

Fates Worse Than Death is a collection published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1991. Like its predecessor, Palm Sunday, it is described as "an autobiographical collage" and largely consists of previously uncollected articles and unpublished speeches by Vonnegut, connected throughout by new material.

Contents

All works by Kurt Vonnegut unless otherwise noted:

Chapter I

• "Sleeping Beauty"

Chapter II

• "Address to the American Psychiatric Association"

Chapter III

• "Art: Great Beginnings"
• "Jack the Dripper"
• A Special Message to Readers of the Franklin Library edition of Bluebeard

Chapter IV

• "The Lake"

Chapter V

• Introduction to Never Come Morning by Nelson Algren
• "Kurt Vonnegut on Ernest Hemingway"

Chapter VI

• "The Hocus Pocus Laundromat"

Chapter VII

• "God Bless You, Edwin Meese!"

Chapter VIII

• "Address to the Graduating Class at the University of Rhode Island"

Chapter IX

• Preface to A Very Young Author and Photographer: Jill Krementz at Fifty

Chapter X

• "Tough Question, Tough Answer"

Chapter XI

• Advertisement for Volkswagen
• "Light at the End of the Tunnel?"

Chapter XII

• Lecture on Science and Technology

Chapter XIII

• "Skyscraper National Park"

Chapter XIV

• A Special Message to Readers of the Franklin Library edition of Hocus Pocus
• "The Worst Addiction of Them All"

Chapter XV

• "Fates Worse Than Death"

Chapter XVI

• "Love is Too Strong a Word"

Chapter XVII

• "My Visit to Hell"

Chapter XVIII

• Address to Translators at Columbia University

Chapter XIX

• "Notes from My Bed of Gloom: Or, Why the Joking Had to Stop"
• Essay on Reading

Appendix

• Afterword to The Eden Express (Mark Vonnegut)
• "On Literature" (Karel Čapek)
• On Kurt Vonnegut (Bernard V. O'Hare)
• "The Bomber's Baedeker" on Dresden
• Masses of Pope St. Pius V and Kurt Vonnegut
• Unpublished Essay on Short Writings by the Mentally Ill