''God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian'', by Kurt Vonnegut, is a collection of short fictional interviews written by Vonnegut and first broadcast on WNYC. The title parodies that of Vonnegut's 1965 novel ''

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater ''God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine'', Kurt Vonnegut's fifth novel, was published in 1965 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston and as a Dell mass-market paperback in 1970. A piece of postmodern satire, it gave context to Vonnegut's ...

''. It was published in book form in 1999.

Synopsis

The premise of the collection is that Vonnegut employs Dr. Jack Kevorkian to give him near-death experiences, allowing Vonnegut access to

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and those in it for a limited time. While in the afterlife Vonnegut interviews a range of people including Adolf Hitler, William Shakespeare,

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, and the ever-present Kilgore Trout (a fictional character created by Vonnegut in his earlier works).

Resources

The book's page in the website of Seven Stories PressMany of the original WNYC radio reports forming the basis of the book
1999 short story collections Bangsian fantasy Books by Kurt Vonnegut Seven Stories Press books {{essay-stub