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
Tim Youd: 100 Novels
NOMA (H/T to Cory MacLauchlin) While in Louisiana, Youd will be performing live in NOMA’s galleries and in locations throughout the state, retyping a series of novels set in Louisiana that will include everything from Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer to John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces. a confederacy of duncesJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleansphilosophical literaturethe moviegoerTim You’dWalker…
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
Literary Louisiana
A travel article (who in N.O. talks of “the Big Easy”?) . . . and realized, once again, that there’s no better place to find Walker Percy than inside the pages of his many dazzling novels, which I’d fallen in love with years ago. a confederacy of duncesJohn Kennedy TooleLiteratureLouisiananew orleansphilosophical literatureTennessee Williamsthe moviegoerTruman CapoteWalker Percywilliam…
Finding Walker Percy
Another nice piece by Toole biographer Cory MacLauchlin. a confederacy of duncesButterfly in the TypewriterCory MacLauchlinJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleansphilosophical literatureWalker Percy
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
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