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The joy of hate-reading

A delicious look at the tastiest morsels of the year

12 December 2015

9:00 AM

12 December 2015

9:00 AM

If there was ever a personification of the faults of online news, it is John Kennedy O’Toole’s vile Ignatius J. Reilly, an arrogant, miserable creature of letters and of his mother’s basement. ‘Most fools don’t comprehend my worldview at all,’ he says, advising a young man on what to read in 1960s New Orleans.

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