The Long Last Ride of John Kennedy Toole

By William Caverlee
Biloxi, Mississippi, is only eighty-seven miles from New Orleans, a brief drive up US 90, along the Gulf Coast past Pearlington, Waveland, Bay St. Louis, Long Beach, and Gulfport. These towns, along with New Orleans, are perhaps best known to Americans for the many times they’ve been in the crosshairs of the lethal meteorological bombardments we call Betsy, Camille, Katrina.
A non-hurricane fatality, in March 1969, was that of New Orleans author John Kennedy Toole, who chose Biloxi as his last stop on a bizarre, two-month-long tour of America that ended when he killed himse...

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