Dutch and I drove from Bloomfield Village (his home) to Indianapolis for his appearance at the final lecture of the 22nd Annual Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writer’s Series on December 6, 2010. He read from Freaky Deaky and When the Women Come Out to Dance. Thanks to Nonie Vonnegut-Gabovitch, program coordinator for the series, and Dan Barden, a novelist and professor at Butler University, who championed Dutch’s visit.
Here’s a description of the opening chapter of Freaky Deaky:
On his last day in the bomb squad, Chris Mankowski gets called to a mansion on Boston Boulevard, where Booker, a “twenty-five-year-old super-dude twice-convicted felon,” is stuck in a chair rigged with ten sticks of dynamite. His woman, Moselle, told him on the phone: “When you get up, honey, what’s left of your ass is gonna go clear through the ceiling.” Booker’s demanding the cops do something. They coolly suggest maybe he could make it to the Jacuzzi before the bomb goes off, then step outside to talk about Chris’s girlfriend problems until…
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