Cory MacLauchlin

I will be reading from the manuscript for Butterfly in the Typewriter and screening the documentary film, John Kennedy Toole: The Omega...

The holidays were filled with hours and hours of writing and editing. Through those hours I dove deep, a depth from which I have yet to...

Toole was born this day in 1937 in New Orleans. His mother called him her “Beauteous Babe.” I have spent the day thinking about Toole’s...

I am making steady progress. I finished two more chapters this month. I focused on Toole’s days at Tulane and his first year at Columbia....

Over Thanksgiving, as there was much chatter about the book deal, one of my cousins asked me about the writing process. How do you go...

It has been a whirlwind couple of weeks. I recently returned from New Orleans where we had two screenings of the documentary, one at...

Over the last few weeks the topic of suicides related to bullying has made headline news. And in many of these cases the bullying focused...

We are getting closer to a deal. Hopefully there will be good news to report soon. In the meantime I have made contact with many people...

The documentary on Toole has been accepted to the New Orleans Film Festival. Congratulations to Joe Sanford! I will be attending. It...

You bring up a great point that this could be self-promotion. In fact, someone placed a newspaper ad for the book on the inscription...

I spent this past weekend in New York. I visited the room in which Toole lived while he attended Columbia University. The trip offered...

The first screening was sold out. It was wonderful to hear the audience respond to interviews with people that Joe, Joel and I have come...

Today I had the pleasure of watching the documentary John Kennedy Toole: The Omega Point with my good friend and author Joel Fletcher. I...

Over the holidays I took some time to revise my book proposal. One of the editorial suggestions I received from one of the most...

Susanna Powers reminded me that Mallord published two books, a fact that I had filed away during my last search. Today my copy of Moving...

His full name is Richard Mallord Silverman. He published a book of poems in New Orleans in 1969 titled Love Alone Finds Cold (Silver...

Two years ago when I approached Joel Fletcher about this project, he recommended I contact Louisiana artist Elemore Morgan, Jr. who had...

After several revisions my agent has placed his seal of approval on the book proposal. How nice the title page looks with an agency logo...

Dr. Patricia Rickels, one of Toole’s dearest friends, passed away on Tuesday. I only had three conversations with Dr. Pat, as she was...