The narrator of a novel by this author is subjected to the life story of a triply-divorced man who sat next to her on an airplane. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author. Conversations between a creative writing teacher and the people she meets in Greece are the subject of an autofictional novel by this author, Outline.
ANSWER: Rachel Cusk
[10m] Teresa’s two trips to Greece are recounted in a Booker-nominated Jonathan Buckley novel titled for one of these objects. A Jerome K. Jerome novel titled for one of these objects was initially intended as a travel guide.
ANSWER: boats [accept One Boat or Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)]
[10e] Travel writing influenced this author’s novel about risk analysts and intelligence agents in Greece, The Names. This author also wrote Libra and White Noise.
ANSWER: Don DeLillo [or Donald Richard DeLillo]
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