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April 27: Mark Vonnegut (speaking for his father Kurt)McFadden Memorial Lecture commemorating “the Year of Vonnegut” 

When: Friday April 27 7:00 PM 

Where: Butler University Clowes Memorial Hall (Parking around Clowes Hall) 

RSVP info: Free, but all tickets have been distributed. A line will form outside Clowes at 6 p.m. the night of the event. At 6:45 p.m., open seats will be released to the line on a first-come, first-served basis. The next 200 people will be given a ticket to the Krannert Room to view via a large screen. 

We expected to hear Kurt Vonnegut, we hear his son saying what his dad would have said. So it goes. Vonnegut had been scheduled to present the lecture as part of the community wide celebration of “The Year of Kurt Vonnegut,” honoring the life, literature and heritage of the City’s native son. His death on April 11 changed that. Instead, lecture attendees will hear Mark Vonnegut present the exact speech his father had planned, along with the elder Vonnegut’s own spoken words from his classic work “Slaughterhouse-Five” during a special seven-minute introduction.  

Mark Vonnegut, who was named by his father after Mark Twain, is a

Milton, Mass., pediatrician and author of the 1970s bestseller “The Eden Express.” Kurt Vonnegut’s wife, the photographer Jill Kremnetz, and his daughter, Lily, will also attend.  

If you like this talk …You should attend many of the dozens of events scheduled around the city as part of the Year of Vonnegut. See a list at http://yearofvonnegut.org/  

You should know before you go…Read David Hoppe’s touching interview with Vonnegut in February: Kurt Vonnegut: the exit interview, and Vonnegut’s Speech at the Athenaeum, Oct. 10, 1996 

For more informationRead Kurt Vonnegut’s books … again.  

Indy experts: David Hoppe of Nuvo maintained a long and respectful friendship with the great author. I have always thought that David’s reporting exhibited the best of Vonnegut’s voice.  

Get involved: Go to the public library’s site for many, many events: http://www.imcpl.org/events/yearofvonnegut/yovevents.html

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