The documentary featuring Toole’s excellent biographer is no longer available via the BBC but is now available on Cory MacLauchlin’s website. Confederacy of DuncesCory MacLauchlinJohn Kennedy Toolephilosophy and literature
This programme features Toole’s biographer, the very excellent Cory MacLauchlin. Confederacy of DuncesCory MacLauchlinIgnatius J ReillyJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleans
Check out the Catalan cover to “Dunces” (H/T to Cory MacLauchlin) The outfit was acceptable by any theological and geometrical standards, however abstruse, and suggested a rich inner life (p. 2). a confederacy of duncesCory MacLauchlinJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleans
I want to give a plug to the superb biography on JK Toole written by Cory MacLauchlin. He brilliantly marshals the Toole story into a plausible and coherent whole given that much of what we know was severely modulated through Thelma Toole and who along with Robert Gottlieb tend to be cast (for different reasons) as the…
Few offer as balanced a scholarly assessment of “Dunces” and Toole than Vernon Leighton, Cory MacLauchlin and Robert Rudnicki. The three must surely be the first port of call for those engaged in Toole related research. Here is Leighton’s blog and here is a collection of his articles. Toole’s biographer Cory MacLauchlin has presented a fine exemplar the art of…
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