Packet 9: Tossup 3

This writer critiqued the “rhetoric of harm” with reference to Sam Durant’s Scaffold and Dana Schutz’s Open Casket in a book of four essays, or “songs,” that was scathingly reviewed by Andrea Long Chu. (15[1]-5[2])A book of (15[1])“autotheory” by this writer (15[1])cites quoted authors in gray marginalia, recounts a marriage in a Hollywood chapel the day before the passage of Prop 8, and is titled after a metaphor for love from Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes. (15[1]-5[1])Police solved the cold case murder of this author’s (*) aunt in between the writing of her books Jane and (10[1])The Red Parts. (10[1])This (10[1])writer, who collected essays on Francis Bacon in The Art of Cruelty, (-5[1])interspersed (10[1])queer (-5[1])theory (-5[1])in a 2014 (-5[1])memoir of her marriage to Harry Dodge, (-5[2])a transmasculine (10[2])artist. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, what author (-5[1])of Bluets (10[1])(“BLOO-its”) and The Argonauts (10[1]-5[1])has (10[1])the first name (10[1]-5[1])Maggie? (10[2])■END■ (10[5]0[25])

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