AROUND TOWN: Lewis Black and Kurt Vonnegut

Robert Charles, Joe Wade, Jeff Osman (aka Oz), and I thoroughly enjoyed ourselves on a late-October evening at the Cliff Dwellers chatting with comedian/truth-teller Lewis Black, who also serves as the Board chair of the new Vonnegut Museum and Library in Indianapolis. Black, interviewed later that evening by free speech advocate Sophie Maurer, was funny, fiery and moving. (I asked Lewis before the program if he’d like a refreshing beverage. “No,” he replied, “Not before. Otherwise, the anger is real.”) To prepare for the evening, Joe Wade and I read “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater,” an early Vonnegut offering and one of his best.