can crypts be walled up sans merlot?
2. Did Mrs. Waldo Emerson
endorse and then condemn her son?
3. Why must Harriet Stowe (nee Beecher)
write, though not to friends beseech her?
4. How can Henry David Thoreau
stumble after one Sapporo?
5. Although long dead, why can’t Saul Bellow
please return my phone call? (Hello…?)
6. Why’s William’s brother, Henry James,
use (like his sibling) two first names?
7. Pursues his muse, does Steinbeck (John)?
Where roams he? Whither? Thither? Yon?
8. If novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne
sports a ‘stash, why keep his jaw shorn?
9. One “women’s lib”er Salinger’s
work censures: should he challenge hers?
10. Who’d know if E. L. Doctorow’s
preeminence is blocked or grows?
11. Who failed to publish Don DeLillo’s
Evening of the Armadillos?
12. Cooper (Which? James Fenimore?
Who cracks Jim’s novels anymore?)
13. True or false: Mark Twain (Sam Clemens)
authors flops, faux pas and lemons.
14. Who misundertstood Walt Whitman?
Be it he who term'd Walt “Tit Man”?
15. Is Washington, whose surname’s Irving,
of a Pulitzer deserving?
16. Emily (Miss Dickinson):
which critics find slim pickin’s in?
17. Will not the child who’s William Faulkner’d
end a Harvard U. post doc nerd?
18. Which son of Ernest Hemingway
apes Papa in a lemming way?
19. Do fans of Flannery O’Connor
foist false flattery upon her?
20. For savorers of Scott Fitzgerald,
does his savoir seem imperiled?
21. What’s worse: readin’ Willa Cather
or that bleedin’ Cotton Mather?
22. Will sushi novelized by Melville
render sev’ral score and twelve ill?
23. Edward Bear and e. e. cummings:
brainless hums or highbrow hummings?
24. Who’d question T. S. Eliot,
“Excuse, please: where’s the deli at?”?
25. “But, Dr. Seuss,” asks Edith Wharton,
“who’s the who who hears a Horton?”
26. True or false: will John Dos Passos
not untie his knotted lassos?
27. The taken road, to Robert Frost,
is fate. What happens when they’re crossed?
28. Is he contented, Wallace Stevens,
making do with Whitman’s leavin’s?
29. “Say ‘cheese,’” some plead of Ezra Pound.
Explain, then parse the man’s raw frown:
30. Which critic rumored: Gertrude Stein
is issue of a curt, rude line?
31. For what did Ann sue Arthur Miller –
dough he’d not the heart to will her?
32. Who confuses Joseph Heller
with that Czechoslovak feller?
33. Daguerreotypes show Stephen Crane
without his chinstrap beard. Explain.
34. Why write (as Dreiser, Theodore
does) sordid stuff we all abhor?
35. Of dramas by Eugene O’Neill
how come we make so big a deal?
36. Critique Tom Williams (Tennessee)
and his The Glass Menagerie.
37. Has one-track-minded Henry Miller
more to say than “When d’we drill ‘er?”?
38. Who, when pressed to pick James Agee’s
pizza topping choice, names “Eight-cheese!”?
39. Why won’t novelist James Baldwin
just admit he wrote The Bald Twin?
40. True or false: young Sinclair Lewis
posed for Herge’s “Ligne Clair Jewess.”
41. Tourette’s Syndromed David Mamet:
what’s he blurt besides ‘god-dammit!”?
42. Explain this quote of Dorothy Parker’s:
“Benchley, Bob, looks poor when starkers!”
43. True or False: did Edna Ferber
pose for dess’nateur James Thurber?
44. Aren’t names the game of Edward Albee,
framing what each said word shall be?
45. Re: fam’ly tree of Langston Hughes:
how many branches sang the blues?
46. How’d Mrs. Sherwood Anderson
know lit’rature would brand her son?
47. Did Buckley reckon Gore Vidal
his pen- (however horrid) -pal?
48. Who imagines Harper Lee
shall prove Miss One-Trick Southern B?
49. Whence pour the stories of John Updike?
(Surely not from one young-pup-like.)
50. Who disillusioned August Wilson
with, “The master’s dog must kill, son!”?
51. Name one book by Walker Percy
not displaying talk of mercy.
52. When didn’t Peter (dubb’d De Vries)
compose in meters framed to please?
53. Aren’t bookstores banning Norman Mailer’s
works mere pawns of Mormon ralers?
54. Should Ray – s/f whiz Bradbury –
concoct a Martian Cadbury?
55. When shooting hoops, will Dashiell Hammett
score…? (Pick one: ___ He’ll crash. ___ He’ll slam it!)
56. Which groups would screw Jack Kerouac?
Those groups which do lack care? H.U.A.C?
57. The drug-soaked texts of William Burroughs:
who’d decipher and endure those?
58. In gaberdine struts Philip Roth.
Why not in folds of Willa cloth?
59. Depression-minded William Styron:
what’s preventing William’s tirin’?
60. Why did author “Tru” Capote
claim he’d written Don Quixote?
61. Do plays of dramatist Sam Shepard
come with cowboy lingo peppered?
62. Which lines of Toni Morrison’s
resemble Black-church orisons?
63. Why did activist Jack London
not receive more arts-group fundin’?
64. True or False: author Vladimir Nabokov
pens novels which everyday life make a joke of.
65. Why didn’t author Louisa May Alcott
allow her quartet of “small women” to “talk rot”?
66. Critics enthuse over Sylvia Plath.
Which critic called her a sociopath?
67. A femme fatale of Raymond Chandler:
how might Runyon (Damon) handl’ her?
68. An author like Ralph Ellison:
what folk tales might he tell his son?
69. Which children’s books did E. B. White,
while authoring his style guide, write?
70. Why didn’t Joel Chandler Harris
publish Remus Goes to Paris?
71. True or False: Kurt Vonnegut
portrays the true Romani gut.
72. Compare the style of L. Frank Baum
with those of stylist Some’set Maughm.
73. In (Lula) Carson (Smith) McCullers,
find her recipe for crullers.
74. Which characters in Pearl S. Buck
exclaim, in Chinese, “What the f**k?”
75. Which three sibs of Thornton Wilder
scribbled much like him, though milder?
76. Is it true that Hunter Thompson
was, in real life, Herbert Lom’s son?
77. Was critic Warren (Robert Penn)
more niggling than he should have been?
78. Who balked when Maya Angelou tea
poured for honkeys in Djibouti?
79. Did “Genius Grant”ee Thomas Pynchon
pen his works with not a stitch on?
80. Does Allen Ginsberg dis Ken Kesey
with his line, “Full beard too messy?”?
81. Jerry Craft loved H. P. Lovecraft.
Why did H. P. push and shove Craft?
82. Why’d confidants of Algren (Nelson)
label him “The Prince of Hell’s Son”?
83. Explain why author Alice Walker
dropped the charge against her stalker?
84. True or False: McCarthy (Cormac)
plans new novels even more black.
85. Explain why author Stephen King
is planning rewrites of The Thing:
86. Examine Hurston (Zora Neale)
and how injustice made her feel.
87. What will placate Marg’ret Mitchell?
[Answer: Meg’s becoming rich’ll.]
88. The poetry of Thomas Paine
he first cooks up prose. Explain:
89. If author Grey’s first name weren’t Zane,
Might he have proved a new Mark Twain?
90. Would Black Boy, penned by Richard Wright,
have sold had Richard’s Boy been white?
91. Which young adults read S. E Hinton?
Kids who cut their teeth on Tintin?
92. Who wins a Pulitzer's no fool.
Does this include John Kenn'dy Toole?
93. House Speaker Ryan loves Ayn Rand.
Suggest why both should not be banned.
94. Ken Kesey’s widow, Norma Faye,
wed L. McMurtry. What the hey?
95. How’d Alex Haley’s novel Roots
beget no end of stranger fruits?
96. True or false: was Mario Puzo
writing Fools Die high on ouzo?
97. Dr. Seuss and Dr. Seuss:
Which rhymes with ‘voice’? Which rhymes with ‘juice’?
98. Did futures viewed by Philip Dick
make Dick a frickin’ lunatic?
99. How come the dates of Ambrose Bierce
lap over those of Franklin Pierce?
100. True or false: did Frederick Douglass
live his long life Jitterbugless?
101. N. Smithe-Magee: one work to date.
Did N. bloom early? Or too late?
Authors treated:
Agee, James x
Albee, Edward x
Alcott, Louisa
May x
Algren,
Nelson x
Anderson,
Sherwood x
Angelou, Maya x
Baldwin, James x
Baum, L. Frank x
Bellow, Saul x
Bierce,
Ambrose x
Bradbury, Ray x
Buck, Pearl S x.
Buckley,
William F. x
Burroughs,
William x
Capote,
Truman x
Cather, Willa x
Chandler,
Raymond x
Cooper, James
Fennimore x
Craft,
Jerry x
Crane, Stephen x
cummings, e. e x
DeLillo, Don x
De Vries, Peter x
Dick,
Philip x
Dickinson,
Emily x
Doctorow, E. L. x
Dos Passos,
John x
Douglass,
Frederick x
Dreiser,
Theodore x
Eliot, T. S. x
Ellison,
Ralph x
Emerson, Ralph
Waldo x
Faulkner,
William x
Ferber, Edna x
Fitzgerald, F.
Scott x
Frost, Robert x
Ginsberg,
Allan x
Grey, Zane x
Haley,
Alex x
Hammett, Dashiel x
Harris, Joel
Chandler x
Hawthorne,
Nathaniel x
Heller, Joseph x
Hemingway,
Ernest x
Hinton, S.
E. x
Hughes,
Langston x
Hurston, Zora
Neale x
Irving,
Washington x
James, Henry x
Kerouac, Jack x
Kesey, Ken x
King, Stephen x
Lee, Harper x
Lewis, Sinclair x
London,
Jack x
Lovecraft, H.
P. x
Mailer,
Norman x
Mamet, David x
Mather, Cotton x
Maughm,
Somerset x
McCarthy,
Cormac x
McCullers,
Carson x
McMurtry,
Larry x
Melville,
Herman x
Miller,
Arthur x
Miller, Henry x
Mitchell, Margaret x
Morrison,
Toni x
Nabokov, Vladimir x
O’Connor,
Flannery x
O’Neill, Eugene x
Paine, Thomas x
Parker, Dorothy x
Percy, Walker x
Plath,
Sylvia x
Poe, Edgar
Allan x
Pound, Ezra x
Puzo,
Mario x
Pynchon,
Thomas x
Q
Rand, Ayn x
Roth, Philip x
Runyon, Damon x
Salinger. J. D. x
Seuss, Dr. x
Shepard,
Sam x
Stein. Gertrude x
Steinbeck, John x
Stevens.
Wallace x
Stowe, Harriet
Beecher x
Styron,
William x
Thoreau, Henry
David x
Thompson, Hunter x
Thurber, James x
Toole, John
Kennedy x
Twain, Mark x
Updike, John x
Vidal, Gore x
Vonnegut, Kurt x
Walker,
Alice x
Warren, Robert
Penn x
Wharton, Edith x
White, E. B. x
Whitman, Walt x
Wilder,
Thornton x
Williams,
Tennessee x
Wilson, August x
Wright,
Richard x
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