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Sam Schaeffer Harrisonburg, VA

Dear K.V,My name is Sam Schaeffer and I discovered your work fairly recently. I read Harrison Bergeron in high school, and then worked my way through several …

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Molly Anglum | Rochester, NY

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Kurt Vonnegut, Thank you for being real and speaking freely in your novels. Unfortunately, many can’t appreciate your candor but that is why I begin …

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Ashley Halm | Corning, NY

Dear Kurt, Sometimes I wonder who will meet me at the mouth of that big blue tunnel to the Afterlife, if such a thing is …

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“Belonging to our Bodies,” an essay by Manon Voice

Manon Voice is a poet and contributor to the Center for Humans and Nature. This essay was originally published by the Center for Humans and Nature …

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Indy Airport and KVML Launch Vonnegut Exhibit, Event

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 317.487.5025 | [email protected] IND unveils new digital art legacy exhibit as Banned Books Week event kicks off INDIANAPOLIS (Sept. 28, 2020) – …

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Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library Celebrates ALA’s Banned Books Week

September 16, 2020 For Immediate Release Indianapolis — ​The Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library (KVML) will once again celebrate the American Library Association’s Banned Books …

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Slaughterhouse-50 Art Exhibition by L.A. Artist Lance Miccio

Don’t miss our current Slaughterhouse-50 art exhibition, now through February 29, 2020. L.A. based artist Lance Miccio spent the last three years painstakingly working on …

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Meet Nick Willy

Meet Nick Willy, our new education director of our soon-to-open Vonnegut Writers Workshop. Nick worked with Dave Eggers 826 project in Chicago and has now …

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Meet Sarah – A KVML Donor/Partner Profile

Meet Sarah Halter, the executive director of the Indiana Medical History Museum in Indianapolis. The Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library (KVML) first worked with Sarah …

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Kurt on Marriage

This is part of a planned series in which I, Emma the Intern, report Kurt Vonnegut’s opinion on a certain topic, drawing mostly on his published works. Please …

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Breakfast of Champions: Emma Reacts

This is the fourteenth and final book in Rachel’s Vonnegut Reading Order. It’s been a pleasure, everyone. When Rachel said that out of all the novels …

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Timequake: Emma Reacts

This is the thirteenth book in Rachel’s Suggested Vonnegut Reading Order. I honestly don’t know what to tell you about this book. That probably surprises …

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Jailbird: Emma Reacts

This is the eleventh book in Rachel’s Suggested Vonnegut Reading Order. I am reading it twelfth. For an explanation of that logic, read my Mother Night reaction …

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Hocus Pocus: Emma Reacts

Hocus Pocus is the tenth book in Rachel’s Best Vonnegut Reading Order. (But I’m reading it as #11 because I cheated and read Mother Night …

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Center for Ray Bradbury Studies

Kurt Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury have a lot in common. They have similar fan bases, since their works share some of the same antiauthoritarian ideals, …

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Mother Night: Emma Reacts

Mother Night is the twelfth book in Rachel’s Best Vonnegut Reading Order. I am reading it tenth for reasons I will explain below. I’m breaking the …

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Bluebeard: Emma Reacts

Bluebeard is the ninth book in Rachel’s Best Vonnegut Reading Order. I’ve been wanting to read Bluebeard for weeks. I was excited to finally get to …

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Vonnegut by the Numbers

As all English majors know, there are dozens of different ways to analyze literature. You can pick apart a book based on when it was …

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Kathi Badertscher, PhD

Director of Graduate Programs at the IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
Kathi Badertscher, PhD, is Director of Graduate Programs at the IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Dr. Badertscher teaches a variety of BA, MA, and doctoral courses, including Applying Ethics in Philanthropy and History of Philanthropy. She has participated in several Teaching Vonnegut workshops and is a member of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library. Dr. Badertscher has been a guest speaker on ethics in philanthropy, including at the National Association of Charitable Gift Planners – Indianapolis Council; Association of Fundraising Professionals – Indiana Chapter; and Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. In 2019 she received IUPUI Office for Women, Women’s Leadership Award for Newcomer Faculty. In 2019 and 2020 she received the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Graduate Teaching Award.
Dr. Badertscher’s publications include “Fundraising for Advocacy and Social Change,” co-authored with Shariq Siddiqui in Achieving Excellence in Fundraising, 5th ed., 2022; “Insulin at 100: Indianapolis, Toronto, Woods Hole, and the ‘Insulin Road,’ co-authored with Christopher Rutty, Pharmacy in History (2020); and three articles in the Indiana Magazine of History: “A New Wishard Is on the Way,” “Evaline Holliday and the Work of Community Service,” and “Social Networks in Indianapolis during the Progressive Era.” Her chapters on social welfare history will appear in three upcoming edited volumes on the history of philanthropy, including “The Legacy of Edna Henry and Her Contributions to the IU School of Social Work,” Women at Indiana University: Views of the Past and the Future, edited by Andrea Walton, Indiana University Press, 2022 (forthcoming). Dr. Badertscher is also the Philanthropy and Nonprofits Consulting Editor for the forthcoming Digital Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, edited by David J. Bodenhamer and Elizabeth Van Allen, Indiana University Press, 2021. Dr. Badertscher is an active volunteer in the Indianapolis community. At present, she is a Coburn Place Safe Haven Board Member and a Children’s Bureau/Families First Brand and Marketing Advisor. Dr. Badertscher holds the MA in History from Indiana University and the MA and PhD in philanthropic studies from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

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