Kurt Vonnegut

No joke: Comedian Lewis Black is chairman of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library board.

Nearly 40 years after Robert Weide began working on a documentary about Indiana author Kurt Vonnegut, the film finally hits screens this month. We caught up with the director to ask, among other things: What took so much time?

New books by and about the late Kurt Vonnegut keep coming, but the latest volume establishes something new about an old subject.

So it grows.

“Indianapolis wasn’t always eager to associate with Vonnegut. Once upon a time, many in our city found him vulgar, obscene, and weird.”

“How do you follow something like Slaughterhouse-Five? It can’t be done.”

A historic playground for the state’s elite.

On downtown’s best street, the action shifts to the west end.

Rise for a standing ovation to this dazzling new space.

After visiting every corner of Indiana over the years, Madigan knows the lay of the land. But one thing about Indiana perplexes her.

Make it a very Vonnegut holiday season.

An exhibition of graffiti at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields is adding fuel to the debate over whether “aerosol art” is art or vandalism. City as Canvas: New York City Graffiti from the ’70s & ’80s, which opened October 7, follows the development of graffiti from simple tags to elaborate murals, and the […]

This post originally appeared on The Campus Citizen. With partisan politics, fake news, and the rise of President Donald Trump, there’s plenty of potential material for comedians and entertainers. On his current “Rant, White & Blue” tour, comedian Lewis Black, in typical fashion, isn’t holding back. The 68-year old comedian takes the stage to discuss […]

The CliffsNotes guide to celebrating all things Vonnegut in 2017.

Maybe the time had come to defy Kurt’s injunction against my return in his review of ‘Going All the Way,’ and instead remember his declaration that we could be writers in our hometown as well as anywhere else.