A Conspiracy of Dunces: Mystery and Majesty in a Writer's Life presented by Bryan Giemza

Bryan's talk will investigate a longstanding rumor, hinted at in Walker Percy’s archival papers, that he did not merely receive the manuscript of A Confederacy of Dunces, but wrote it himself. In exploring this mystery, and Percy’s place among Louisiana writers and events, Giemza unfolds his evolving relationship to his work over the course of a writing life and affirms the meaning-making power of literature in times of unanticipated crisis