Contemporary Flashcards
In which year was ‘A Visit from the Goon Squad’ published?
2010
Who is the author of the collection ‘The Things They Carried’?
Tim O’Brien
‘The Help’ was written by ______.
Kathryn Stockett
Which novel by Jonathan Franzen, published in 2001, is often associated with the literature of the 1990s?
The Corrections
What is the name of the influential literary magazine that launched in the 1990s and featured works by emerging writers?
Tin House
Which novel by Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993?
Beloved
‘Snow Falling on Cedars’
David Guterson (later made into a movie)
1997 collection of essays by David Foster Wallace
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
‘The Poisonwood Bible’
Barbara Kingsolver
‘The Lovely Bones’
Alice Sebold (2002)
‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’
Stephen Chbosky
What is the primary setting for the novel ‘A Visit from the Goon Squad’?
San Francisco
Which novel by Haruki Murakami was translated into English in the 2000s?
Kafka on the Shore
Who wrote ‘The Kite Runner’, published in 2003?
Khaled Hosseini
What is the theme of the novel ‘The Night Circus’ by Erin Morgenstern?
Magic and competition
What is Flannery O’Connor’s most famous novel?
Wise Blood
Short Answer: Name one of Flannery O’Connor’s short story collections.
A Good Man is Hard to Find
