More from the Vonnegut collection

While Vonnegut was at Iowa, he was in a career slump as an author. While teaching at the Workshop he started his magnum opus, Slaughterhouse-Five. He would later complete the novel after receiving a Guggenheim grant to travel back to Dresden which eventually led to the completion of the novel.

Kurt Vonnegut Silkscreens Part 2 (see previous post for introduction and a cool Ralph Steadman blurb)

More from the Iowa Vonnegut collection: a collection of silkscreens with an introduction from Ralph Steadman (and Vonnegut)

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I work part-time at special collections and archives at the University of Iowa, and one of my favorite things to do is going through our Kurt Vonnegut material, who taught at Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop. To start us off, I find his faculty file a funny read, plus some letters about moving to Iowa

You have to pick one of these famously arduous book to read over winter, what’re you choosing? (I’m going with my second attempt at Moby Dick, Proust is for prison )