Question

This city divides into warring Romantic and Jubilant gangs in one of the roughly 60 prefaces that make up a novel for the “skip-around (15[1])reader.” An author used this city to title the “last bad novel,” (15[1])then spent 25 years writing the “first good novel,” The Museum of Eterna’s Novel. (15[1])In the 1920s, this city’s (15[1])aesthete Florida Group (15[1])feuded with (15[1])its socially engaged Boedo Group. An “Adam” surnamed for this city (-5[1])descends into Cacodelphia in a long novel that fictionalizes writers like Xul Solar (“shool so-LAR”) and Norah Lange. Spain’s (*) Ultraism movement influenced this city’s poets via its main avant-garde journal, which was named (10[1])for a 19th-century poetic character who uses a spelling riddle to stump a man who seeks revenge for his murdered brother in a lengthy singing duel. (10[1])This (10[1])city (-5[1])was home to the literary magazine Sur. (10[1])For 10 points, name this (10[1])capital (10[1])city home to Victoria Ocampo and the journal (10[1])Martín Fierro. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Buenos Aires (The first two clues are about Macedonio Fernández. Adam Buenosayres is by Leopoldo Marechal.)
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2024 Chicago Open07/28/2024Y15100%40%13%100.53

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Arya KarthikCharlotte's Moderately Successful TeamThe Oldest Men in the World2315
Matt BollingerBHSU BI’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open)3515
Milan FernandezThe Empire Bikes Backsticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone4915
Rahul KeyalLying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, ChicagoNJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess)5415
Anuttam Ramjiit's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brownLMM's LLM MLM5715
Henry GoffA Nervy Liberal Nanny HenceWe Need New Names5915
Raymond WangAMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUHAre You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret70-5
Ned TagtmeierBerkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boyvar merchants10110
Andrew WangPunished "Venom" BHSUThe Dyatlov Passement incident12710
Ethan AshbrookGalvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood VermeerLisan al-Quib12810
Charles HangLes MissourablesMindgoblin of Little Hobbes129-5
Chinmay Kansarawhen you look this good, you don’t have to know anythingSAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE13610
Jorrest WeintraubThe Jeam TeamFirst Cause, First Cause, make me young!14110
Mitch McCullarAre You There, Chat? It's Me, MargaretAMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH14210
Eric BobrowRead slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: AThere are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see15010
Jim FanMindgoblin of Little HobbesLes Missourables15310
Richard YugenAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yetNJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess)15310