Richard Brautigan - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

In a novel by this author, a half-written story discarded by a humorist continues on its own, describing how a sudden appearance of a hat causes chaos in a Southwestern town. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this author of Sombrero Fallout. In a gothic western by this author, Magic Child hires two hitmen to kill a monster living in ice caves beneath her house, which is affected by mysterious “Chemicals.”

ANSWER: Richard Brautigan [or Richard Gary Brautigan] (The second novel is The Hawkline Monster.)

[10e] In the Sombrero Fallout story, this man joins a bloody war between the town and the Federal government. This author drew on his real war experience to write The Naked and the Dead.

ANSWER: Norman Mailer [or Norman Kingsley Mailer; or Nachem Malech Mailer]

[10m] In this post-apocalyptic Brautigan novel, inBOIL leads a gang at the Forgotten Works after leaving iDEATH, a commune where the title substance is used as a building material.

ANSWER: In Watermelon Sugar

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Data

Team	Opponent	Part 2	Part 3	Total
Berkeley A	Waterloo	10	10	20
Berkeley B	Kentucky	10	10	20
Brown	Ottawa	10	0	10
Chicago A	Arizona State	10	10	20
Columbia B	Chicago D	10	10	20
Georgia Tech	Cornell B	0	0	0
Harvard	Chicago B	0	0	0
Illinois	Chicago C	10	10	20
Iowa State	Indiana	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins	Duke	10	10	20
Maryland	Truman State	10	10	20
Minnesota A	McGill	10	10	20
NYU	Rutgers	10	0	10
North Carolina A	Florida	10	10	20
North Carolina B	Toronto B	0	0	0
Purdue	Stanford	10	0	10
Texas	WUSTL B	10	10	20
Toronto A	Virginia	0	0	0
Vanderbilt	Penn	10	0	10
WUSTL A	Minnesota B	10	10	20
Yale A	South Carolina	10	0	10
Yale B	Northwestern	10	0	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	Heard	PPB	Easy %	Medium %	Hard %
2024 ACF Nationals	04/21/2024	Y	22	13.64	82%	55%	0%