Books include humorous, affectionate tweakings of ads, recipes, and photographs from the mid-20th century, which also comprised the centerpiece of The Bleat when it started in 1997, along with scrupulous coverage of Lileks's daily routine (dog-walking, conversations with daughter, unsatisfying encounters with store clerks). Conservative themes emerged tentatively at first, with grumpy-oldman swipes at graffiti ("When I see that thicket of cryptic squibbles plastered on a sign, I want to bring back the chain gang") and Monica Lewinsky ("I no more care how she feels about Ken Starr than I.care how Al Capone felt about Eliot Ness"). Predicted New York would be "nuked," compared a Chock Full O'Nuts Coffee can to "an urn from Atlantis," and imagined his daughter attacked by Osama bin Laden...
ATLANTA (AP) -- Atlanta's Theatrical Outfit is taking advantage of an opportunity to stage "A Confederacy of Dunces" with a new adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that opens Saturday. The Louisiana State University Press, which owns the rights, rarely permits more than staged readings of adaptations of John Kennedy Toole's comic novel, published in 1980, about life in New Orleans in the early 1960s.
Review by Rick Romancito OK, yes, this movie is stupid and silly and certainly ridiculous, but damned if I didn't find myself practically rolling on the floor with laughter -- and it's all Steve Carell's fault.
Whoa there. The story line going out across the country -- that the public's fury against politicians is being whipped up, and then reaped, by the "tea party" movement -- might be missing the bigger picture. Look at Pennsylvania's Democratic senatorial primary and you'll see a different story entirely. Right now it's anyone's guess whether longtime Sen. Arlen Specter, a party switcher of Churchillian magnitude and maybe amplitude, survives a primary challenge Tuesday from Rep. Joe Sestak of the Philadelphia suburbs. But the tea party has nothing to do with this fight, one of the most bitter in the country. This is a fight among Democrats.
To write a funny book with an unfriendly main character is risky business. Most people want to read about characters they'd go out to dinner with or invite to a party, not ones they'd move across town to avoid. The last book I read with an unappealing main character was John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces." I recommended that book in this column, and received many delighted messages from Gazette readers who followed my recommendation.
Is John McCain stupid, or does he believe we are? That's the question as he criticizes Barack Obama for allegedly trying to "redistribute the wealth" with a plan to lower taxes on the middle class and raise them on the super-rich. Of course, the Democrat's proposal would merely slow down (not fully halt) the less-talked-about redistribution whereby Washington sends middle-class money up the income ladder. Either McCain doesn't know about this kleptocracy and is the dumbest presidential candidate in history, or he thinks America is too ignorant to recognize theft. Which is it?
Arcade Fire -- "Neon Bible" (Merge): Somehow, some way, when all the glorious strings and bombast swirl around throughout the epic and exhilarating songs on Arcade Fire's sophomorerific "Neon Bible," the tunes still feel intimate. Singer Win Butler is always in the middle, straining to stick out from the reverb-drenched mini- symphonies adorning the septet's gussied-up folk songs. Ever since indie tastemaker Pitchfork planted a big, fat almost- perfect 9.7 rating on Arcade Fire's 2004 full-length debut, "Funeral," the buzz following the Montreal band has gotten louder and louder. So much so that the band's label, the indie Merge, expects a top-10 debut on Billboard's album chart for "Neon Bible," a disc named after "Confederacy of Dunces" author John Kennedy Toole's first novel. The bui...
GLENDALE, Ariz. - Say this for the confederacy of dunces that runs the Bowl Championship Series. In their own bumbling way, they try to make it a little less intolerable each year. Here's the next nip/tuck they should consider.
Last Monday's announcement of the 2010 Pulitzer Prizes in Letters surprised some observers and touched off much speculation about how larger cultural forces are shaping the judgements of the three person juries that award what have traditionally been America's most centrist and mainstream annual literary prizes. As many commentators noted, the fiction winner Tinkers, a first novel by Boston area writer Paul Harding published by Bellevue Literary Press--a small, independent press based in a tiny 6th floor office of New York City's fabled Bellevue Hospital Center that publishes "fiction and nonfiction at the nexus of the arts and the sciences, with a special focus on medicine"--represents the first Pulitzer Prize for fiction awarded to a book published by non- commercial press since John...
Ken & Thelma" will likely be of interest only to those who've read John Kennedy Toole's zany picaresque, "A Confederacy of Dunces." But this is a fair-sized universe. "Dunces" has sold more than a million and a half copies in 18 languages since it was first published by the LSU Press in 1980, 13 years after Toole committed suicide near Biloxi, Mississippi. The novel still enjoys brisk sales. As it should. This valuable companion to "Dunces" will be a treat to those who've enjoyed the novel. And it gives the uninitiated yet another reason to sample the madcap world of Ignatius J. Reilly, a huge, blustering, modern day Don Quixote who encounters - and is consistently outdone by - his windmills in down-scale, early-1960s New Orleans rather than 17th-century Spain.
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