Richard Lewis Stands Up for Lenny Bruce

Via a letter to The New York Times editors.

LennyBruceAutobiographyCoverThis 50th anniversary month of the death of Lenny Bruce began with Da Capo Press re-issuing Bruce’s autobiography How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, with a new preface by Lewis Black and all proceeds going to The Lenny Bruce Foundation, an organization created by Bruce’s daughter Kitty Bruce. She will be at Book Soup in Los Angeles Wednesday night to read from the book and sign copies.

In Monday’s New York Times, Real Time With Bill Maher writer Chris Kelly had an interesting op-ed.

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