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A Confederacy of Dunces

Special | 26m 47s

Gail Martin and co-host Alfred Guillaume make gumbo and bread pudding and discuss why the

John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces" is a very popular book. Turned down by countless publishers and submitted by the author's mother years after his suicide, the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Gail Martin and co-host Alfred Guillaume make gumbo and bread pudding and discuss why the book became so popular

02/17/2017 | Rating NR

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A Confederacy of Dunces

Special | 26m 47s

John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces" is a very popular book. Turned down by countless publishers and submitted by the author's mother years after his suicide, the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Gail Martin and co-host Alfred Guillaume make gumbo and bread pudding and discuss why the book became so popular

02/17/2017 | Rating NR

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