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Answer the following about the Wanda Tinasky letters, a series of letters to the editor of the Anderson Valley Advertiser that featured clever and harsh commentary on artists, authors, and politicians, for 10 points each.
[10m] Due to the shared focus on the California zeitgeist, publisher Bruce Anderson thought that this author wrote the letters after reading his novel Vineland. In another novel by this author, a secret organization is symbolized by a muted post horn.
ANSWER: Thomas Pynchon (The novel is The Crying of Lot 49.)
[10e] Tom Hawkins, the actual author of the Wanda Tinasky letters, was an unsuccessful member of this literary movement. This 1960s movement included the author of “Howl,” Allen Ginsberg.
ANSWER: Beat Generation [accept beatniks]
[10h] Wanda Tinasky claimed that the critic jack green was the true author of this novel, which green wrote about in his piece “Fire the Bastards!” Jonathan Franzen struggles with this William Gaddis novel in his essay “Mr.Difficult.”
ANSWER: The Recognitions
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