Question
The opening scene of season 6 of The Sopranos is set to this author’s reading of the “Seven Souls” passage from one of his novels inspired by the Egyptian Book of the Dead. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this novelist of The Western Lands. This author’s thousand-page Word Hoard provided the material for an experimental technique that he incorporated into his novel The Soft Machine.
ANSWER: William S. Burroughs [or William Seward Burroughs II] (The Soft Machine uses the cut-up technique.)
[10e] The Western Lands was influenced by this author’s incorporation of The Book of the Dead into his novel Ancient Evenings. This New Journalism author also wrote The Executioner’s Song and The Armies of the Night.
ANSWER: Norman Mailer [or Norman Kingsley Mailer; or Nachem Malech Mailer]
[10m] This author used The Book of the Dead to subtitle his self-destructing electronic poem Agrippa. Henry Case and the “razorgirl” Molly Millions appear in this author’s novel Neuromancer.
ANSWER: William Gibson [or William Ford Gibson]
<HG, American Literature>
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