Question
The creative output of the indie trio boygenius, comprising Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker, bears the clear influence of their collective passion for literature. For 10 points each:
[10m] This German poet’s correspondence with Franz Kappus, Letters to a Young Poet, is referenced in “Letters to an Old Poet,” a track from boygenius’s latest album, the record. This poet wrote Sonnets to Orpheus.
ANSWER: Rainer Maria Rilke [or René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke]
[10e] When recommending the novel Conversations with Friends, Bridgers stated that she wished she was this nationality of author Sally Rooney, who also wrote about two students at Trinity College Dublin in Normal People.
ANSWER: Irish [accept answers that specify being from Ireland]
[10h] Female friendship is a central theme of both boygenius’s work and this novel, the first in a tetralogy by a pseudonymous author that follows the lives of Lila and Lenu from childhood to old age.
ANSWER: My Brilliant Friend [or L’amica geniale] (By Elena Ferrante.)
<Literature - European Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 100% | 17% | 0% |
Data
| Columbia A | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Lehigh | Penn | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| University of Delaware A | Maryland | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU A | Rowan | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU C | Delaware B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Princeton | Swarthmore A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |