Question
In a story by this author, Spurgeon bails his father out of jail and ends up at the Million Man March, where his father tries to sell exotic birds to the attendees. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author of “The Ant of the Self,” whose story “Brownies” is about Black Girl Scouts who try to beat up an all-White troop before realizing they are disabled. She wrote the collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere.
ANSWER: ZZ Packer [or Zuwena Packer]
[10m] In the title story of Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, Heidi gets fellow Yale student Dina to open her room door by reciting this poet’s “Autobiographia Literaria.” One of his poems opens, “Lana Turner has collapsed!”
ANSWER: Frank O’Hara [or Francis Russell O’Hara]
[10e] Heidi and Dina bond by skipping class and reading unassigned books, including this Yale literary critic’s The Anxiety of Influence.
ANSWER: Harold Bloom
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 23 | 14.35 | 87% | 48% | 9% |
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