John Kennedy Toole: The Omega Point

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"This is a really engaging, well-made, and reflective documentary about the life of John Kennedy Toole. It's a little less than an hour long, but it manages to give a satisfying account of Toole's life and work, focusing especially on his final years, his suicide, and his mother's subsequent efforts to get his novel published. It's informative, smart, and surprisingly touching. John Kennedy Toole, if you don't know, wrote A Confederacy of Dunces, a brilliant novel about New Orleans, in the mid-1960s. It's a comedic masterpiece about Ignatius J. Reilly, a hyper-edu..."