John Kennedy Toole, who was born in New Orleans on ... Toole wrote the bulk of A Confederacy of Dunces while stationed in Puerto Rico. The book’s title is a nod to satirist Jonathan Swift ...

The best short story I have read in The New Yorker over the past few years is Zadie Smith’s “Now More Than Ever,” from July 2018. (Smith reads the short story here.) The piece considers ...

asked me to co-author a novel with him based on the remarkable events behind the making of John Kennedy Toole’s Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces, I was immediately ...

On March 26 1969, on a quiet country road outside Biloxi, Mississippi, John ... Toole’s grieving mother Thelma dedicated her life to ensuring the second of these, “A Confederacy Of Dunces ...

On March 26, 1969, John Kennedy Toole used a garden hose to pump exhaust fumes into his car. He wouldn’t live to see the success of his novel, “A Confederacy of Dunces,” which he had tried ...

John Kennedy ... like John Kennedy Toole.” In 1969, at the age of thirty-one, Toole asphyxiated himself—in despair, it is often assumed, over his failure to publish “A Confederacy of Dunces ...

At the core of this zany, irreverent and sometimes hilarious novel lies Ignatius J. Reilly, a man who thinks highly of himself but in reality shows no potential. Ignatius is a 30-year-old man ...

Kramer became one of the first of many readers to be seduced by the comic charms of A Confederacy of Dunces ... came 11 years after author John Kennedy Toole committed suicide at the age of ...