Discussion of Confederacy Staging
A sensible discussion by Jeffrey Hatcher. Click image for MP3 discussion (H/T Robert Bugg) a confederacy of duncesJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleansphilosophical literature
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Staged Confederacy of Dunces Reviews
I’m typically very sceptical about a great piece of art being adapted for another modality and though the reviewers don’t fully grasp CoD, I think this shows. Burma cynical? Only the shallowest of readings of the book would suggest that but if he comes over as such in the play, then we have a disjuncture. The…
LSU Press marks the anniversary with a new edition of A Confederacy of Dunces
Here’s a small snippet from Louisiana Public Broadcasting hosted by my ever enthusiastic chum James Fox Smith commemorating the thirty-fifth anniversary of the publication of CoD along with a lovely new CoD related book by Cynthia Cynthia LeJeune Nobles. a confederacy of duncesCynthia LeJeune NoblesJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleansphilosophical literatureWalker Percy
Can Broadway pull off ‘Confederacy of Dunces’?
This in the New York Post Last year, the Wall Street Journal called the book “the Big Easy slacker’s manual” and recommended it should be given to recent college graduates as “a comic and cautionary lesson in how not to get a job.” a confederacy of duncesJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleansphilosophical literature
A Confederacy of Dunces Cookbook: Recipes from Ignatius J. Reilly’s New Orleans
Coming this October a confederacy of duncesCynthia LeJeune NoblesfoodJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleansphilosophical literature
Meet Me Under the Clock: A New Orleans Story
A lovely story written by my chum and master John Kennedy Toole biographer. a confederacy of duncesCory MacLauchlinJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleans
Nick Offerman Joins ‘Confederacy of Dunces’
This in the NYT. Speaking of CoD: Block party in downtown Baton Rouge uses ‘Confederacy of Dunces’ as theme a confederacy of duncesJeffrey HatcherJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleansNick Offermanphilosophical literature
A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 91
After about two years this marks the end of the weekly CoD cycle and with no more text forthcoming here are the left over Ignatius graphics I’ve found. a confederacy of duncesJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleansphilosophical literature
A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 90
Some cretin psychoanalyst would attempt to comprehend the singularity of his worldview. In frustration, the psychoanalyst would have him crammed into a cell three feet square. No. That was out of the question. Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.…
A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 89
“He resented my worldview rather actively.” . . . Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen. Everywhere there lurked pitfalls like Abelman, the insipid Crusaders for Moorish Dignity, the Mancuso cretin, Dorian Greene, newspaper reporters, stripteasers, birds, photography, juvenile delinquents, Nazi pornographers. And especially Myrna Minkoff. The musky…
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