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GET LIT: Book Quarterly Trivia Week!

POSTED: Thursday, April 1, 2010, 2:00 PM

Filed Under: Arts Books

Good morning, fellow lit nerds! If you picked up a copy of this week's City Paper, you may have noticed that, in conjunction with our overstuffed edition of the Book Quarterly, we're launching yet another Book Quarterly Trivia Week here on Critical Mass. We're giving away copies of the books reviewed in the pages of CP all week long, and all you gotta do is answer some questions. Let's get started.

Spiegel & Grau, 224 pp., $24, April 13

We're kicking off BQ Trivia Week with Beatrice and Virgil, Yann Martel's first novel since his critically acclaimed Life of Pi. Martel will give a talk during the upcoming Free Library Festival (Sat., April 17, 4 p.m., free, 1901 Vine St., 215-567-4341, freelibrary.org). Sez the Library's Web site, Martel once again uses animals "to discuss the human condition — in this case, the limitations of language in understanding and describing the horrors of the Holocaust." Which means we can forgive the guy for getting a little meta at the get-go. We gave Martel a shout-out in this week's Kaleidoscope — er, Biblioscope:

After Life of Pi, Yann Martel got real famous, real quick. He even received a handwritten thank-you letter from Barack Obama. Where do you go from there? Martel's new book, Beatrice and Virgil, starts with a writer whose first novel made him real famous, real quick. Sigh. But add a creepy taxidermist who asks our protagonist to help him pen a Holocaust parable about a donkey and a howler monkey, and Martel saves himself from semi-autobiographical fantasyland and delivers another downright remarkable fable.

We've got two copies to give away. To win, answer the following trivia question:

Life of Pi's main character has an unusual name. What was he named after?

E-mail your answers to carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net; winners will be notified via e-mail. Stay tuned to Critical Mass more BQ Trivia!

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