Round 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. A book of “autotheory” by this writer 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. Police solved the cold case murder of this author’s (*) aunt in between the writing of her books Jane and The Red Parts. This writer, who collected essays on Francis Bacon in The Art of Cruelty, interspersed queer theory in a 2014 memoir of her marriage to Harry Dodge, a transmasculine (10[1])artist. For 10 points, what author of Bluets (“BLOO-its”) and The Argonauts has the first name (-5[1])Maggie? ■END■ (10[1]0[6])

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