Look at the Birdie Receives Praise

Look at the Birdie, a collection of fourteen short stories by Vonnegut, have received praise from TheAustralian.com’s Stephen Romei. The collection, which was published in Australia earlier this month, contains stories written by Vonnegut in the 1950s, which weren’t published in his lifetime. Romei compares Look at the Birdie to other posthumous works, such as Nabokov’s The Original of Laura and proposes that while readers often feel apprehensive when approaching new works from deceased authors, “such fears are quickly dispelled in Look at the Birdie.”

Romei provides synopses of several of the stories including in Look at the Birdie, and readers interested in exploring more of the book may like to check out the full version of Look at the Birdie over at the LA Times website. While the short story collection has only just been published in Australia, it's been available in the US since October 2009, and in the UK since September 2010.