Article and Book Club Discussion Questions by James Evans James will lead our First Friday Classic Book Club Discussion of A Confederacy of the Dunces on Friday, June 7, 2019,
Tag: John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy, A Catcher, and A Cornucopia
The Catcher in the Rye* As a cry for liberation from the cult of success that dominated the Eisenhower and Kennedy eras, A Confederacy of Dunces in some ways resembles
Confederacy of the Dunces – New Orleans – Part II
Part II – Confederacy, New Orleans The novel’s New Orleans setting is essential to its flavor, and cleaving to his hometown is central to Ignatius’ worldview: American culture is terrible,
Nothing Recedes Like Success*: A Confederacy of Dunces – Part I
I am pleased that Rebecca Jones, co-founder of the VCU Working Titles Book Club, has written the following commentary on John Kennedy Toole’s novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, which was
