Packet 7: Bonus 6

The second of two novels by George R. Stewart recently reissued by NYRB follows one of these events dubbed “Spitcat.” For 10 points each:
[10h] What kind of event is the subject of a 1992 work of nonfiction by Norman Maclean, who contrasts his own advanced age with that of the title “young men”?
ANSWER: wildfires [or forest fires or bushfires or brushfires; accept firestorm; prompt on fire; prompt on Young Men and Fire] (George R. Stewart wrote Storm and Fire.)
[10e] Philip Connors’ memoir of his work as a fire lookout, Fire Season, was called the “[this book] of the wildfire” in a review by Donovan Hohn. This transcendentalist book begins, “I went to the woods to live deliberately.”
ANSWER: Walden; or, Life in the Woods (by Henry David Thoreau)
[10m] This writer, whom Edward Abbey called the “heir” to Thoreau, muses on prairie fire signals and concludes “everywhere I look I see fire” in one of many theological reflections from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
ANSWER: Annie Dillard [or Annie Doak]
<Editors, American Literature> | G. Prelims 7 - Georgia Tech A + Berkeley A + Bruin + Georgetown

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CambridgeColumbia A0101020EM
Chicago ATexas010010E
Chicago BMichigan0101020EM
Columbia BMaryland A010010E
Georgia Tech BUCLA0000
Georgia Tech CNorthwestern A010010E
HarvardWashU010010E
Illinois ABrown0101020EM
Johns HopkinsStanford B010010E
MITCornell010010E
MinnesotaVirginia Tech10101030HEM
NYU ANorthwestern B0101020EM
NYU BIndiana010010E
Ohio StateSwarthmore0101020EM
PurdueMaryland B010010E
Stanford AToronto B0101020EM
Toronto APenn State0101020EM
VanderbiltUC Berkeley B010010E
VirginiaNorth Carolina010010E
WaterlooPittsburgh0101020EM

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Main Site2026-04-17✓2114.2995%43%5%