Originally Posted by
DeadStick
On a recent podcast Chuck Palahniuk mentioned his favorite book is “A Confederacy of Dunces.” A 1968 “tragicomedy.” Picked it up and enjoyed it.
Pretty much anything from Cormac McCarthy is a dark masterpiece. Pat Conroy tells some good southern stories. Classics you’ve probably missed from Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner. Tom Wolfe, Hunter S Thompson for some social commentary…
I am reading
A Confederacy of Dunces now. If you heard someone cackling down the hall in a hotel room, it might have been me reading John Kennedy Toole.
Walker Percy wrote the introduction to Toole’s book. If you’re into Southern Catholic writers, Percy and Flannery O’Connor top the list.