Question
In a novel by this author, a half-written story discarded by a humorist continues on its own, describing how a sudden appearance of a hat causes chaos in a Southwestern town. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author of Sombrero Fallout. In a gothic western by this author, Magic Child hires two hitmen to kill a monster living in ice caves beneath her house, which is affected by mysterious “Chemicals.”
ANSWER: Richard Brautigan [or Richard Gary Brautigan] (The second novel is The Hawkline Monster.)
[10e] In the Sombrero Fallout story, this man joins a bloody war between the town and the Federal government. This author drew on his real war experience to write The Naked and the Dead.
ANSWER: Norman Mailer [or Norman Kingsley Mailer; or Nachem Malech Mailer]
[10m] In this post-apocalyptic Brautigan novel, inBOIL leads a gang at the Forgotten Works after leaving iDEATH, a commune where the title substance is used as a building material.
ANSWER: In Watermelon Sugar
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