What is the first paper Hem worked at as a young reporter
100
epic themes, vivid dialogue in Afro American venacular, and richly detailed characters.
What is a description of Toni Morrison's style
100
The tough New York borough where DonDelillo grew up
What is the Bronx
100
The title of Jack Kerouac's semi autobiographic novel from 1957.
What is On the Road
100
It was a fine cry—loud and long—but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
What did Toni Morrison write
200
a play by Oscar Wilde that made Hemingway dislike his own name because he associated it with the naive, even foolish hero of Oscar Wilde's play ..
What is "The importance of being Ernest"
200
1993
What was the year when Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
200
the American author whose works DeLillo "fell in love with".
Who is Ernest Hemingway
200
William S Burroughs, the "godfather" of the beat movement .
Who was the beatpoet who shot his wife in a drug daze and moved to Tangier to avoid punishment ?
or
Who was the older "mentor" that Ginsberg and Kerouac acquainted at Columbia University in New York ?
200
It was late and everyone had left the cafe except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light.
What did Hemingway write (in A clean Well-lighted Place)
300
Gertrude Stein.
Who was Hemingway's mentor and coined the expression "The lost generation" about Hem and his contemporary American ex-pat authors in France
300
a movie based on a Toni Morrison novel in which Opra Winfrey plays one of the leading characters.
What is the movie Beloved
300
terrorism, consumerism, violence, fractured consciousness, academia and banality.
What are themes in DeLillo's writing.
300
Sal, Dean, Marylou and Ed
Who are the protagonists in On the road
300
and now it was the beginning-returning to the Red Drum for sets, to hear Bird, whom I saw distinctly digging Mardou several times also myself directly into my eye looking to search if really I was that great writer I thought myself to be as if he knew.....
What did Jack Kerouac write (in The Subterreneans)
400
74 rue du Cardinal Lemoine
What was Hemingway's address in Paris
400
a style which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations.
What is magic realism ?
400
the alphabet that triggerede DeLillo's great interest in the shape of letters and words.
What is the Greek alphabet.
400
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (the owner of City Lights Books in San Francisco ).
What is the name of the man who was charged for obscenity by publishing Ginsberg's poem Howl.
400
"'For most people there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set,"
What did Don DeLillo write.
500
1954 (October)
What was the year Hemingway received the Nobel Prize
500
"The first black president"
What did Toni Morrison call Bill Clinton ?
500
according to DeLillo "a genre that offers more opportunities for a reader to understand the world better".
What is a novel (in contrast to the short story)
500
writing without editing and with no regard to punctuation.
What is spontaneous prose ?
500
"Hold back the edges of your gowns, Ladies, we are going through Hell"
(trick question)
What did someone write in the introduction to Ginsberg's poem Howl.
(William Carlos Williams)