Due to popular demand, the Huntington Theatre Company announces the addition of one week of performances to its run of the world premiere production of A Confederacy of Dunces. The show will now play ...

After my column last month on “A Confederacy of Dunces,” Bob Jacobsen wrote to let me know that legions of fans also love the book — and they’re willing to speak up when it’s overlooked. Most of us ...

I, John Kennedy Toole, a nonfiction novel co-authored by Kent Carroll and Jodee Blanco (Pegasus Books, May 2020), tells the story of John Kennedy Toole’s tragic life and death and of his novel A ...

As sure of a sign as a robin heralding spring, a colorful array of eccentric characters in outlandish situations taking to the stage signals the annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival ...

A "Lucky Dog" wagon of the obsolete style, built c. 1950, in Louisiana State Museum, Baton Rouge, LA. (Wikimedia Commons/Infrogmation of New Orleans) The best short story I have read in The New Yorker ...

The "Parks and Recreation" star will play New Orleans pariah Ignatius J. Reilly in an industry-only workshop reading of Jeffrey Hatcher's stage adaptation, which is aiming for Broadway. By David ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. hollyblog guest blog banner On March 26 1969, on a quiet country road outside Biloxi, Mississippi, John Kennedy Toole took his own ...

Ignatius J. Reilly would not seem to inspire a cookbook. The overweight, overeducated 30-year-old fights against the modern world, opines about food and gorges on jelly doughnuts, wine cakes, candy ...