Round 4: Tossup 5

Ann Manov’s review of Lauren Oyler’s essay collection No Judgment criticizes her for trying to be “the [this author] of looking at your phone a lot.” An essay by this (-5[1])author contains the oft-scrutinized (-5[1])phrase “piece by piece, line by line, and without interruption, worthless.” Diane Keaton modeled her performance in Woody Allen’s Interiors on this author, who criticized the incessant use (-5[1])of “nine favorite words” like “whore” and “trash” in an 8,000-word polemic against the collection When the Lights Go Down by (*) Pauline Kael. (10[1])A post this author quit in 1969 after just a year in office was filled for the next 20 years by Vincent Canby. Katie Roiphe coined the term “Smart Woman Adrift” to describe the genre of a semi-autobiographical novel by this former New York Times film critic about journalist Jen Fain. For 10 points, name this novelist of Speedboat. ■END■ (10[4])

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