Five Unpublished Kurt Vonnegut Stories Discovered at Indiana University

Five unpublished short stories by Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) have been discovered at the Lilly Library of Indiana University. The find was made by Dan Wakefield, a friend of the writer, and Jerome Klinkowitz, a literary scholar, while they were browsing through Vonnegut's papers. One of the stories, titled "The Drone King," dates from the late 1950s and was published for the first time by The Atlantic magazine, accompanied by a short animated film. The complete collection of stories will be released in print by Seven Stories Press of New York at the end of September. The story, an excerpt of which is featured in the video, revolves around bees and is a concentrated dose of irony and social satire in pure Vonnegut style. The animation depicts an intrepid businessman named Sheldon Quick trying to convince his partner of the validity of his bizarre idea: using bees as a communication system within the office.