This ultra-brief folio of essays began as a series of interstitial monologues that Vonnegut recorded to help WNYC public radio raise money. It's an amusing collage of imagined interviews with dead people conducted while Vonnegut undergoes near-death experiences at the hands of Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Vonnegut hasn't had anything much new to say in his writing in more than twenty years, but I still greatly enjoy his work. Among his more recent writing, I recommend A Man Without a Country above this one.

I've been a Vonnegut fan for about twenty years. I finished reading all of his novels in 1999, and now I've finished reading all of his other books (with the exception of Nothing is Lost Save Honor, which is unavailable except for more than $500). I wish there were more.