Question
Lauren Oyler sarcastically pondered taking the title of “[This Author] for girls” in a 2023 Harper’s essay about going on a Goop Cruise. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author whose own Harper’s essay on the cruise industry was originally published as “Shipping Out” but is better known as “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again.”
ANSWER: David Foster Wallace
[10e] Wallace considered Blood Meridian, a novel by this author of The Road, one of the most underappreciated novels since 1960.
ANSWER: Cormac McCarthy
[10h] This author reflected on Wallace’s suicide and Robinson Crusoe in the 2011 essay “Farther Away.” This author’s 2021 novel Crossroads is the first in a planned trilogy titled A Key to All Mythologies.
ANSWER: Jonathan Franzen
<Michael Bentley, Literature - American - Nonfiction> ~22122~ <Editor: Chandler West>
Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 36 | 15.28 | 89% | 53% | 11% |