Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday: “John Kennedy Toole's great book A Confederacy of Dunces was universally turned down by publishers...”
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak: “Books rained on top of one another: The Aleph and Other Stories, A Confederacy of Dunces, A Frolic of His Own, The Management of Grief, Borges's Collected Fictions, Narcissus and Goldmund...”