“Mother, I have been seized!” echoed throughout the Huntington Theatre Wednesday evening as Nick Offerman’s character was arrested on stage. John Kennedy Toole’s novel “A Confederacy of Dunces,” ...

While spending time in Puerto Rico in 1963, American Novelist John Kennedy Toole wrote his magnum opus, the absurdist black comedy, A Confederacy of Dunces. Based partially on some of his own life ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 26 1969, on a quiet country road outside Biloxi, Mississippi, John Kennedy Toole took his own life. Aged just 31, the ...

So Vulture is reporting that Zach Galifianakis is set to star as one of the greatest characters literature has to offer: Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero (?) of John Kennedy Toole’s ...

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 ...

The statue of Ignatius J. Reilly, the main character from John Kennedy Toole's Pultizer-winning novel 'A Confederacy of Dunces,' under the iconic clock at the former D.H. Holmes department store on ...

In the classic sophomoric college film, Animal House, a naïve freshman pledge is distraught that the sleek Lincoln loaned to him by his older brother has been dinged repeatedly after a night of ...