Question
In response to James Wood’s criticism of this novel, its author wrote, “I wrote like a script editor for The Simpsons who’d briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault (“foo-KOH”). Such is life.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novel, which Wood wrote about in a piece that coined the term “hysterical realism.” This novel set in London follows the lives and families of Samad Iqbal and Archie Jones.
ANSWER: White Teeth (The lead-in is from the essay “How White Teeth transcends its many flaws.”)
[10h] The author of White Teeth, Zadie Smith, concludes “Between propriety and joy, choose joy” in an essay about practitioners of this activity. Two mixed-race girls meet at a class for this activity in another Smith novel.
ANSWER: dancing [accept dance or tap dance] (The essay is “Dance Lessons for Writers” and the novel is Swing Time.)
[10e] Smith’s essay about “Killing” this author discusses his inescapable influence on her historical novel The Fraud. This author wrote about a thieving orphan in Oliver Twist.
ANSWER: Charles Dickens
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