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GET LIT (ALL WEEKEND LONG): Win a copy of These Children Who Come At You With Knives

POSTED: Sunday, June 20, 2010, 5:00 PM

Filed Under: Critical Mass

Welcome to Book Quarterly Trivia Week! From now till June 23, we'll be inundating you with opportunities to win free copies of books from our Summer BQ. For the first time in BQTW's history, we've got copies of every single book we've reviewed, previewed and shouted out (even in Icepack!). So keep an eye out at 9 a.m., noon and 3 p.m. every day for plenty of chances to win. I promised you Icepack, and Icepack you shall receive: At the end of A.D. Amorosi's gossip column this week, he shouted out local author-turned-Brooklynite Jim Knipfel, whose story collection These Children Who Come At You With Knives, and Other Fairy Tales came out in early June. Here's a snippet from the book jacket:

A masterful storyteller whose memoirs and novels have earned him widespread acclaim, this is Knipfel's first foray into the short story, and he delivers in spades: This wickedly dark satire on the notion of happily ever after turns the traditional fairy tale on its head. Among the array of lonely losers wallowing in discontent, the enterprising reader of this volume may meet a talking chicken who learns the world has little patience for intelligence, a foul-mouthed gnome set on world domination, and a magical snowman wrestling with the horror of being alive.

To win a copy of These Children Who Come At You With Knives, answer the following trivia question:

Since he was a teenager, Knipfel has suffered from what condition?

E-mail me at carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win, and be sure to put "Jim Knipfel" in the subject line. Keep an eye on Critical Mass this afternoon for a Hollywood Hellraisers giveaway. [UPDATE, Mon., June 21, 10:23 a.m.]: Big ups to CritMass reader Sara, who was the first to answer that Knipfel suffers from Retinitis pigmentosa.

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