Question
Answer the following about writers who were married to Robert Lowell, for 10 points each.
[10h] Lowell’s first wife, Jean Stafford, fictionalized her experience of nose surgery in this story after he drunkenly crashed their car. This story about Patsy Vanneman is titled in reference to a 16th-century devotional work.
ANSWER: “The Interior Castle”
[10e] Lowell’s second wife, Elizabeth Hardwick, co-founded this literary magazine. Hardwick’s Seduction and Betrayal is part of its publishing arm’s “classics” series, which is known for its brightly colored spines.
ANSWER: The New York Review of Books [or NYRB; accept NYRB Classics]
[10m] Lowell’s third wife, Caroline Blackwood, wrote a novel about a tyrannical “great” character known by this nickname. This is the title nickname of a dying woman who recalls her wedding day in a Katherine Anne Porter story.
ANSWER: granny [accept Great Granny Webster or “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”]
<JK, American Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 12 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| BHSU B | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| We Need New Names | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Dyatlov Passement incident | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Empire Bikes Back | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Oldest Men in the World | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Jeam Team | var merchants | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |