Packet N: Bonus 12
Answer the following about the career of novelist Dawn Powell, whom Fran Lebowitz called “The Best American Writer You’ve Never Heard Of,” for 10 points each.
[10m] Powell satirized New York bohemians in a novel titled for some of these animals that “have no king.” At the end of a novel partly titled for one of these animals, the painter Tod Hackett witnesses a riot outside an LA theatre.
ANSWER: locusts [accept The Locusts Have No King or The Day of the Locust (by Nathanael West)]
[10e] The Atlantic’s 2024 list of the Great American Novels included Powell’s A Time to Be Born, which is based on her move from this state to New York. Sherwood Anderson set a collection in this state’s town of Winesburg.
ANSWER: Ohio [or OH]
[10h] This friend of Powell’s helped re-popularize her via a 1987 NYRB essay. In a novel by this author, a lover of Parker Tyler’s film criticism moves to LA and teaches at an acting school after having a vaginoplasty.
ANSWER: Gore Vidal [or Eugene Luther Gore Vidal] (The novel is Myra Breckinridge.)
<TM, American Literature> | Packet N - Simon Fraser A, Carleton A, Georgia Tech A, Claremont A, Warwick A, Columbia B
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 13.59 | 82% | 39% | 15% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia A | Johns Hopkins B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Johns Hopkins A | Swarthmore | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Maryland A | John Jay | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Maryland C | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU B | Rutgers B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU C | Columbia C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Rutgers A | Maryland B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Vassar | Catholic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California (South) | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 50% | 25% | 25% |
| Canada | Main Site | ✓ | 11 | 17.27 | 100% | 55% | 18% |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| Northeast | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 20% | 20% |
| UK | Main Site | ✓ | 6 | 6.67 | 50% | 17% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 15.00 | 75% | 50% | 25% |