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This image of Tom Robbins is from the 1959 student yearbook for Richmond Professional Institute (RPI), The Cobblestone. RPI was often called the “cobblestone” campus because of its bricked sidewalks and cobblestone alley ways.
Tom Robbins at RPI 1959.jpg

Compare this graphic to the cover of the author's 2014 book, Tibetan Peach Pie.
Tom Robbins Tibetan Peach Pie Inc stationery header rsz.jpg

Business card identifying Tom Robbins as: Part-time Buddha Menace to Society Admirier of Clouds
M 90 Box 12 Folder Miscellaneous Business card front rsz.jpg

Unlike other notebooks in this collection, this book contains notes, phrases, and ideas representing the very early stages of Tom Robbins' creative process.
M 90 Top Flight Earthbound notebook cover rsz.jpg

Epigraph:You never know to whom you're talking. -- Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny OperaPS 3568.O233 V55 2003
PS 3568_O233V55 2003 Villa Incognito rsz.jpg

Epigraphs:Your true guide drinks from an undammed stream. --RumiNever enter a house that does not have furniture music. -- Eric Satie
PS 3568_O233W55 2005 Wild Ducks Flying Backward cover rsz.jpg

Robbins' postscript to this contract reads, "I should warn you that you may have to press your bleep button a few times"
M 90 Box 12 Contracts and Correspondence 1993_2007 WNYC rsz.jpg

The Zoo was a short lived literary magazine published in 1960 by students at Richmond Professional Institute (now VCU). In fact, volume one, number one, may have been the only issue. The magazine contains 15 poems including one by Tom Robbins…
RPI Zoo No 1 cover rsz.jpg
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