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Literary Sneers, Snits and Scandals

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Introduction:
"And not just cheap stuff about this or that famed scribbler who was really a drunk, a loony, a Trot or a recluse."


1. Who said of Lillian Hellman, "every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'"?
    bell hooks
    Mary McCarthy
    Marge Piercy
    Nadine Gordimer


2. Who said that James Fenimore Cooper "in the restricted two-thirds of a page... scored 114 offenses against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record"?
    Van Wyck Brooks
    P.J. O'Rourke
    Ernest Hemingway
    Mark Twain


3. Who called William F. Buckley a "crypto-Nazi" on television?
    Noam Chomsky
    Gore Vidal
    William Kunstler
    Alexander Cockburn


4. When William F. Buckley was called a "crypto-Nazi" on TV, what was his response?
    He walked off the show
    He characterized his accuser as a "caitiff and a voluptuary"
    "Now listen, you queer. Stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I'll sock you in your .. face."
    He said , "And you're an Anti-American, faux-aristocratic parlor pink"


5. What two "institutions" did Tom Wolfe have the temerity to attack in a hilarious piece entitled "Tiny Mummies! The True Story of the Ruler of 43rd Street's Land of the Walking Dead!"?
    "Esquire" and Clay Felker
    The "New York Times" and A.M. Rosenthal
    The New Yorker and William Shawn
    The "New York Review of Books" and the "Times Book Review"


6. Put forth a highly acclaimed autobiography, became an immediate darling of the left, and won the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize; the autobiography was subsequently shown to be substantially fraudulent.
    Lech Walesa
    Olof Palme
    Catherine MacKinnon
    Rigoberta Menchu


7. Pultizer Prize-winning book, ostensibly non-fiction, yet long since shown to be both largely fictional and also heavily plagiarized.
    "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men."
    "Balkan Ghosts"
    "Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987"
    "Roots"


8. Even after this alleged work of non-fiction was investigated and widely denounced as "preposterous", fraudulent and "fictitious", the movie made from the book still presented it as a "true story".
    "Melvin and Howard"
    "Sleepers"
    "All the President's Men"
    "Lust for Life"


9. Kosinski and Wilkomirski:
    represented Courlander against Haley in the plagiarism suit
    represented Haley in the Federal Court plagiarism suit.
    authored fraudulent Holocaust memoirs
    wrote diametrically opposed accounts of the romantic life of Marie Curie


10. Jules Davids and Ted Sorenson are generally acknowledged to be (along with several other uncredited writers) the actual authors of this prize-winning book.
    "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
    "Why England Slept"
    "Profiles in Courage"
    "The Making of the President 1964"


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