Question
In a story from Ling Ma’s collection Bliss Montage, the narrator reads a story by this author that reframes a passage from Mark Salzman’s Iron & Silk. In that story by this author, an author claims that the “favorite story she’s written” is a story she read about a Chinese student whose “happiest moment” was his wife eating duck in Beijing. This author used Philip Yorke’s letters about his Russian journey to construct the story “Lord Royston’s Tour” and reworked a French author’s letters into stories like “The Cook’s Lesson.” This author incorporated excerpts from (*) Shinichi Suzuki’s autobiography in a story from her collection Break It Down. A story by this author consists solely of James Boswell’s statement that “Samuel Johnson is indignant that Scotland has so few trees.” For 10 points, name this American author of flash fiction and translator of Swann’s Way and Madame Bovary. ■END■
Summary
2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 13 | 85% | 0% | 0% | 122.27 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Henry Goff | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 100 | 10 |
Rahul Keyal | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | Lisan al-Quib | 106 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 117 | 10 |
Mitch McCullar | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 120 | 10 |
Omkar Marathe | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 120 | 10 |
Matt Jackson | LMM's LLM MLM | BHSU B | 120 | 10 |
Ethan Ashbrook | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 120 | 10 |
Richard Niu | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | The Oldest Men in the World | 120 | 10 |
Caleb Kendrick | We Need New Names | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 138 | 10 |
William Golden | The Dyatlov Passement incident | The Empire Bikes Back | 141 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 143 | 10 |
Anwen Kelleher | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 147 | 0 |
Chinmay Kansara | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | var merchants | 147 | 0 |
Colin Stewart | var merchants | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 147 | 0 |