Bagombo Snuff Box is a collection of 23 short stories written by Kurt Vonnegut. The stories were originally published in US periodicals between 1950 and 1963 and consisted of virtually all of Vonnegut's previously published short fiction of the 1950s and 1960s that had not been collected in 1968's Welcome to the Monkey House. This collection was published in 1999 by G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Vonnegut revised three stories for publication in this collection: "The Powder-Blue Dragon" (1954), "The Boy Who Hated Girls" (1956), and "Hal Irwin's Magic Lamp" (1957). The unrevised version of "Hal Irwin's Magic Lamp" was anthologized in Canary in a Cat House (1961). The final work in the collection, "Coda to My Career as a Writer for Periodicals", is an essay in which Vonnegut reflects on the writing of the stories in this collection and the person he was at the time.
The title story, "Bagombo Snuff Box", was adapted into a short film by Igor Stanojević. The film, called , or The Man from Bagombo, stars Dragan Jovanović and Gala Videnović; it premiered in 2010.
Stories Title Date first published First published in 1 "Thanasphere" Collier's Farrell (2008), p. 371 2 "Mnemonics" Collier's Farrell (2008), p. 245 3 "Any Reasonable Offer" Collier's Farrell (2008), p. 23 4 "The Package" Collier's Farrell (2008), p. 271 5 "The No-Talent Kid" The Saturday Evening Post Farrell (2008), p. 269 6 "Poor Little Rich Town" Collier's Farrell (2008), p. 301 7 "Souvenir" Argosy Farrell (2008), p. 368 8 "The Cruise of the Jolly Roger" Cape Cod Compass Farrell (2008), p. 101 9 "Custom-made Bride" The Saturday Evening Post 10 "Ambitious Sophomore" The Saturday Evening Post 11 "Bagombo Snuff Box" Cosmopolitan Farrell (2008), p. 24 12 "The Powder-Blue Dragon" Cosmopolitan 13 "A Present for Big Saint Nick" Argosy 14 "Unpaid Consultant" Cosmopolitan Farrell (2008), p. 400 15 "Der Arme Dolmetscher" The Atlantic Monthly Farrell (2008), p. 122 16 "The Boy Who Hated Girls" The Saturday Evening Post Farrell (2008), p. 55 17 "This Son of Mine" The Saturday Evening Post 18 "A Night for Love" The Saturday Evening Post 19 "Find Me a Dream" Cosmopolitan Farrell (2008), p. 136 20 "Runaways" The Saturday Evening Post Farrell (2008), p. 310 21 "2 B R 0 2 B" Worlds of If 22 "Lovers Anonymous" Redbook Farrell (2008), p. 236 23 "Hal Irwin's Magic Lamp" Cosmopolitan Farrell (2008), p. 177
Notes
References