SEVEN LITERARY QUESTIONS

1.) Who was the most influential post-World War II American novelist?

2.) Which famed literary publication was founded with Random House money as a corporate ad vehicle during a major newspaper strike?

3.) Which canonical author’s cousin headed a Cold War CIA-front arts organization designed to steer literature into safe directions?

4.) Which innovative writer was once left by American soldiers in a cage on an airport tarmac in the hot sun, for hours?

5.) Which American populist novelist, forerunner of the Beats, went from being an acclaimed author to writing screenplays for low-budget monster movies?

6.) Which literary critic, after writing a scathing article in the Atlantic about the pretentiousness of American literary fiction, received a torrent of vitriol and denunciations from book reviewers, novelists, and corporate publishing power brokers? (The person currently lives in South Korea.)

7.) Which over-the-top pulp novel was praised by both Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud for exploring realms of the unconscious?

(Please give your answers below.)