Cory MacLauchlin

A pitch to an editor. An appeal to Netflix. A few phone calls through some contacts, and a few weeks later I found myself in a black...

At nearly a century old, the 1930 All Quiet on the Western Front remains a powerful film. But it's easy to forget, when watching Lewis...

Last week I received word that John Kennedy Toole’s childhood friend, John Geiser III, passed away. John was a walking encyclopedia of...

Some stories, especially ones from our own lives, take time to percolate. Last week, the Free-Lance Star published my story about an...

"At the end of the day, I do not want to be like E.C. Kelly, two bullets lighter with a pat on the back for being a patriot." I have been...

From 1961-1963 John Kennedy Toole was stationed at Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico, on the outskirts of San Juan. An honored and respected...

Last night a group of actors gathered in the classroom of screenwriter Henry Griffin at the University of New Orleans to read David...

On a rainy day in July, I drove from Laupheim to Ichenhausen, a small village in western Bavaria where, in 1878 Carl Laemmle at twelve...

Carla Laemmle, one of the last actresses of the silent film era, passed away last Friday. She was the niece of Carl Laemmle and, most...

This summer I begin archival research for The Moving Picture Man . I am most honored that the granddaughters of Hermann Obernauer, a man...

A tour of JKT’s New Orleans is being organized for June 7, 2014. We will escape from Baton Rouge! As your guide I will show you the...

JKT in his father’s car. Father and son were both passionate about automobiles. In the end, JKT chose to end his life in one. Toole’s...

Gibson Hall, where Toole took most of his English classes. I just returned from New Orleans where I caught up with one of Toole’s...

The young John Kennedy Toole attempts to shift gears on a tractor in Mississippi as his best friend, Cary Laird, poses for the camera....

JKT’s final resting place. Photo taken 3/26/12. Message left to Toole on the paper had been washed away by the rain. Today is the 44th...

BBC’s Matt Wells takes a fresh look at the story behind A Confederacy of Dunces and why attempts to make the novel into a film seem to be...

Some new developments in the past few weeks: The paperback for Butterfly in the Typewriter will be released at the end of March with a...

This is not a picture of JKT’s library. Image taken from The BookCase Project There is much you can learn about a person from the books...

Toole in Washington, DC. May 1954. Courtesy of Louisiana Research Collection, Tulane University. Edited by Joseph Sanford. Today,...

Yesterday President Obama and his daughters stopped by my local independent bookstore One More Page Books in Arlington, VA. They bought...