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 (15[1])at your phone a lot.” An essay by this author contains the oft-scrutinized 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 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. 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■ (0[2])

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