A pioneer in Vonnegut studies, Jerome Klinkowitz is the author of more than forty books, including novels, collections of short stories, studies of literature, philosophy, art, music, sports, and air combat narratives. He is a professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at the University of Northern Iowa.
No matter how familiar you are with the great author's canon, Kurt
Vonnegut's America will have you pulling his books off the shelf
again, eager to reread them, armed with new insights that could be
provided only by the country's leading Vonnegut scholar. Here
Klinkowitz provides a critical context for Vonnegut's output that
is informed not only by his biography, but his reaction to, and
shaping of, an ever-evolving American culture.--Robert Weide,
director of Kurt Vonnegut: American Made and screenwriter of Mother
Night
While writing from the perspective of a friend as well as a critic,
Klinkowitz makes clear that Vonnegut never took his finger off the
American pulse. He became more direct and hyperbolic in his
formulations but, as Klinkowitz ably demonstrates, never strayed
far from his oft-repeated ethos of artists as the canaries in the
coalmine by reminding Americans of our highest ideals and taking us
to task for our failures.-- "Bloomsbury Review"
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