Try em out…leave your answers behind. I’ll post the right ones tomorrow. Keep the Googling to a minimum, cheaters. They range in difficulty, I think…
1. This favorite drink of Papa Hemingway and many of his more macho characters was recently legalized in the United States. Just don’t cut off your ear after you drink it.
2. Arguably the first commercially successful black novelist in history, this French author’s work on revenge was later adapted into a bad movie starring Leonardo di Caprio.
3. In Richard Wright’s novel Native Son, Bigger Thomas lives no more than ten blocks from the residence of this DC transplant.
4. What book does Tao Lin suggest his readers should steal from Urban Outfitters? Bonus point, what does he suggest the title of the book that describes this theft should be? Two bonus points if you can find Tao Lin and punch him in the face for me.
5. Since all of you have Infinite Jest on your shelves, this one should be easy….right? In David Foster Wallace’s monumental novel, this is the name of the Tennis Academy at which much of the action takes place.
6. Colonel Aureliano Buendia stands before the firing squad in the famous opening of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. But he remembers a day in the past when his father took him to discover…..what?
7. John Cusack calls himself a sensitive guy in the unbearably saccharine movie High Fidelity, based on the stripped down novel by Nick Hornby. To prove it, Cusack’s character tells us he read what book by a famous Czech author?
8. Truman Capote put this Kansas town on the map. Or maybe more accurately the men he introduces as Perry and Dick did.
9. What kind of flowers does the cruellest month breed out of the dead land?
10. Where had Yorick borne Hamlet a thousand times before he (Yorick) croaked?
