The travel writer Macon lugs around this novel to prevent seatmates from speaking to him on airplanes in Anne Tyler’s novel The Accidental Tourist. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 1,200 page book that a New Yorker retrospective calls “The Longest, Least Remembered, Great American Novel.” This dreamlike novel is narrated by Vera Cartwell, who was raised by the title Iowan governess.
ANSWER: Miss Macintosh, My Darling
[10e] Marguerite Young’s Miss Macintosh, My Darling was praised for its “complete universe” by this author, the novel’s supposed first reader. This author of Delta of Venus wrote erotic journals about her affair with Henry Miller.
ANSWER: Anaïs Nin [accept Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell]
[10m] Young sold her book, originally thinking it would be about 200 pages, to this editor for Scribner. This editor of The Great Gatsby made Thomas Wolfe cut around 90,000 words from Look Homeward, Angel.
ANSWER: Maxwell Perkins [or William Maxwell Evarts Perkins; accept Max Perkins]
<S, American Literature>