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Tommy Orange on 'A Confederacy Of Dunces'


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Tommy Orange says he wasn't much of a reader in his early years. But a chance encounter with an absurd, experimental novel by John Kennedy Toole showed him a path to writing a novel that was truly his own.

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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

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