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An author who lived for decades in this city with Solita Solano used a mononymous (10[1])pseudonym to write the long-running “Letter from…” column. The “diurnal and nocturnal Distempers” of a social circle in this city was the subject of a mock Restoration satire illustrated with the author’s Elizabethan-inspired woodcuts. Janet Flanner spent 50 years as this city’s (10[1])New Yorker correspondent. In this city, (10[1])an unlicensed Irish gynecologist rambles about the Great (10[1])Enigma after being found dressed in women’s (10[1])clothing. That novel set in this city (-5[1])fictionalized the author and her ex-partner Thelma Wood as Nora Flood (10[1])and (10[1])Robin (-5[1])Vote. (10[1])Most of Djuna (“JOO-nuh”) Barnes’s novel Nightwood (10[1]-5[1])is set in this city, (10[1])where Sylvia (-5[1])Beach founded a (10[1])bookstore that published (10[2])the (10[1])first edition of (10[1])Ulysses. For 10 points, (10[1])Shakespeare and Company (10[1])is in (10[1])what European city, (10[1])where Lost Generation writers like Gertrude (10[2])Stein lived in the 1920s? (10[2])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Paris [accept “Letter from Paris”] (The second sentence refers to Ladies Almanack by Djuna Barnes.)
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y24100%0%17%108.13

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Charles HangWUSTL ADuke A1410
Joseph ChambersVirginia AIllinois A5610
Wenying WuToronto AChicago C6210
Arya KarthikGeorgia Tech AChicago B7010
Connor MayersMaryland AStanford A7710
Isak JatoiSouth Carolina ARutgers A84-5
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley ATexas A9510
Matt JacksonChicago AFlorida A9610
Anson BernsBrown AOhio State A97-5
Raymond WangCornell AYale A9810
Cormac BeirneMcGill AIowa State A10410
Andrew HannaVanderbilt AColumbia B104-5
Ethan AshbrookMinnesota ANorthwestern A10910
Ani PerumallaPenn State AYale B111-5
Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BMinnesota B11410
Jim FanNorth Carolina AMIT A11710
Alex PijanowskiPurdue AFlorida B11710
Halle FriedmanNYU AHouston A11810
Seth EbnerJohns Hopkins AMichigan A12110
Mazin OmerHarvard AIndiana A12510
Michael MaysImperial ARutgers B12810
Dean Ah NowClaremont APenn A13010
Forrest WeintraubColumbia BVanderbilt A13310
Richard NiuCornell BColumbia A13910
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia Tech BWUSTL B13910
Chris RayOhio State ABrown A14410
Darren PetrosinoRutgers ASouth Carolina A14410
William OrrYale BPenn State A14510