Question
This goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky likened the unsteady social world of fame to “the barge” in her novel Sex and Rage. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this prodigious lover-taker and Los Angeles socialite who was photographed nude while playing chess with Marcel Duchamp. She wrote the semi-fictionalized autobiography Eve’s Hollywood.
ANSWER: Eve Babitz
[10h] Sarah Kramer edited many of Babitz’s unpublished essays including her book-length expose of the Italian fashion brand Fiorucci into this 2019 collection, which was a finalist for the PEN Award.
ANSWER: I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz
[10e] This member of the “literary Brat Pack” helped repopularize Babitz’s work in the ‘90s. He wrote the controversial novel Less than Zero as well as a novel centering on serial killer Patrick Bateman.
ANSWER: Bret Easton Ellis (The second novel is American Psycho.)
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Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 9 | 14.44 | 100% | 44% | 0% |
Data
| BHSU | In Search of Things Past | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Evans Hall destruction awaiters | Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | Hang et al., Robert Browning | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| I would prefer not to | remembrance of lost time | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Quasicrystal Silence | Team Name Think Detail | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.) | [moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled? | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| The Canadians | Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Saint Peter Andre 3000 | wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |