A Confederacy of Dunces Resources

A writer has gone through the entire novel, visited every single place mentioned in it, and taken photographs. From a bus station like that in which Officer Mancuso spent his lonely vigil to the Prytania movie theater, everything is here.

The long, painful, unsuccessful history of trying to make a movie version of A Confederacy of Dunces.

An excerpt from Cory MacLauchlin's biography of John Kennedy Toole Butterfly in the Typewriter, which reveals the true-life, fat, lazy, flatulent lover of Boethius who inspired the creation of Ignatius Reilly.

Cory MacLauchlin, Toole's biographer, describes his effort to find the original manuscript of the novel.

Cory MacLauchlin describes Toole's failed efforts to publish his book, and his slide into depression and eventually suicide.

Giancarlo DiTrapano explains how he realized he was gay after reading about Ignatius Reilly masturbating.

In a brief video, author Michael Lewis argues that John Kennedy Toole captured New Orleans street life like no other writer.

The one-hour documentary biography John Kennedy Toole: Omega Point, available for viewing at the film's official website.

A bronze statue of Ignatius Reilly stands on Canal Street in New Orleans at the former site of the D.H. Holmes Department Store, where the first scene of A Confederacy of Dunces takes place. Reilly is dressed in his standard get-up of hunting cap, baggy pants and scarf.

The store outside which the first scene of the novel takes place. The department store was changed into a hotel in 1995.

A still from the film that inspired Mr. Reilly to uncharacteristic amorousness, culminating in Ignatius's conception.