Packet 10: Tossup 8

J. Michael Lennon’s biography of this author discusses an event during which this author was told to fold a paper “five ways and put it where the moon don’t (15[1])shine.” A debate (15[1])between (15[1])this author and a panel including (15[1])Diana Trilling (-5[1])and Germaine (15[1])Greer (15[1])is depicted in the (15[2])documentary Town Bloody Hall. (15[1])After being mocked as a “prisoner of the virility cult” in Kate Millett’s Sexual (15[1])Politics, this author responded (15[1])with (15[1])The Prisoner of Sex. This author was (15[1])told that “once again, (*) words have failed” him after punching Gore (10[1])Vidal. (10[2]-5[3])This author (0[1]-5[1])was (-5[1])supposedly (-5[1])told (10[1])that he was not as good (-5[1])as Dostoyevsky (-5[1])at a party to promote his mayoral campaign, (-5[1])leading him to use a penknife to stab his (10[1])wife (10[1])Adele Morales. (10[1])For 10 points, name this author of The Executioner’s Song (10[2])and The Naked and (10[1])the Dead. ■END■ (10[3]0[2])

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