I'm giving away a new book published by Simon & Schuster in the Literary Forum trivia contest!
The first person to answer 5 trivia questions correctly in the Literary Fiction Forum contest will win a brand new copy of Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules edited by David Sedaris and containing 17 contributors. Proceeds from this book will benefit 826 NYC, a non-profit literary organization founded by David Eggers.
"Besides his obvious talents as a writer and performer, David Sedaris is an exceptional reader. He is really good at introducing other people's work to new readers. Here he has edited an anthology of fictional stories he considers masterpieces of form. These are the stories, he says he sits around his apartment reading aloud to the point that he has them memorized. He fantasizes that he wrote them. He even fantasizes about reading these stories in front of an audience and taking credit for them, pretending that he has authored them and then basking in the audience's respect and applause."Inside Children Are Playing:
*Oh, Joseph, I'm so Tired by Richard Yates
*Gryphon by Charles Baxter
*Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
*The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
*Half a Grapefruit by Alice Munro
*Applause, Applause by Jean Thomson
*I know What I'm Doing About All the Attention I've Been Getting by Frank Gannon
*Where the Door is Always Open and the Welcome Mat is Out by Patricia Highsmith
*The Best of Betty by Jincy Willett
*Song of the Shirt, 1941 by Dorothy Parker
*The Girl with the Blackened Eye by Joyce Carol Oates
*People Like that Are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk by Lorrie Moore
*Revelation by Flannery O'Connor
*In the Cemetery Where Al Jolsen is Buried by Amy Hempel
*Cosmopolitan by Akhil Sharma
*Irish Girl by Tim Johnston
*Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff
*Epilogue: About 826NYC by Sarah Vowell
This contest is open to anyone living in the US and UK who is age 18 or older. Only UNEDITED posts will be accepted as answers. Prize will be shipped to the winner at no cost to the winner. For complete sweepstakes rules, click here.
The trivia contest will begin Friday, June 24th, 2005 at this thread. Only unedited responses are acceptable.
***UPDATE: This prize has been won by Sherri Myers, Strasburg PA.***
Have fun!
Also by David Sedaris from Amazon.com:
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
