Where can I find “Hal Irwins Magic Lamp” (or similarly obscure Vonnegut short fiction)?
If you must read all the long-forgotten Vonnegut scratchings from the 1950’s and early 60’s, buy yourself a copy of Bagombo Snuff Box, a recently published collection of Vonnegut’s 1950s-era fiction (see #5 above). If you want to be more creative, find a copy of the first edition Canary in a Cat House or to shell out $25 for the bogus Buccaneer Books reprint (see #7 above). To see the story in its original published skin, check your local library for the original printing of Canary or for the June, 1957 issue of Cosmopolitan, on pages 92-95.
