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Not all of the items in Special Collections are particularly old, but they are all pretty amazing.
Pictured above is a collector’s edition of Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. This book was personally signed by the author and also contains an inscription addressed to Loree Rackstraw, a long-time friend of Kurt Vonnegut’s with whom he also had a brief romantic relationship. These two friends met when Vonnegut first began teaching at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and remained close until Vonnegut’s death in 2007.
If you are interested in learning more about the relationship between Loree Rackstraw and Kurt Vonnegut, feel free to check out Love as Always, Kurt, a memoir published by Rackstraw in 2009.
-Kelly
Vonnegut, Kurt. Cat’s cradle Norwalk, Conn. : Easton Press, c2000.
Special Collections x-Collection PS3572.O66 C3 2000

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (via creatingaquietmind)

theparisreview:

Kurt Vonnegut reads from Slaughterhouse-Five. (via)

Sometimes I think that’s the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.

Kurt Vonnegut in Cat’s Cradle

(via nolessluminous)

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

Kurt Vonnegut (via odiarmi)

irisblasi:

“This course began as Form and Theory of Fiction, became Form of Fiction, then Form and Texture of Fiction, then Surface Criticism, or How to Talk out of the Corner of Your Mouth Like a Real Tough Pro. It will probably be Animal Husbandry 108 by the time Black February rolls around. As was said to me years ago by a dear, dear friend, ‘Keep your hat on. We may end up miles from here.’ ””
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Kurt Vonnegut’s term paper assignment in his “Form of Fiction” course at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1965
via Slate

as an English major at the University of Iowa, this makes me enormously happy.

tattoolit:
“ Vonnegut’s self portrait and signature, done on what would have been my late father’s 60th birthday. My father introduced me to Vonnegut, beginning a love affair that continues to this day.
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tattoolit:

Vonnegut’s self portrait and signature, done on what would have been my late father’s 60th birthday. My father introduced me to Vonnegut, beginning a love affair that continues to this day.