Packet 6: Tossup 14

This city was the starting point of a van trip with Carol Dunlop documented in the travelog Autonauts of the Cosmoroute. In a story titled for this city, (10[1])the narrator worries that moving a metal tray would (10[1])disrupt the order of Andrea’s apartment. (10[2])Two drivers returning to this city have a relationship during a months-long traffic jam in the story “The Southern Thruway.” Two years after moving to this city in 1951, an author was commissioned to translate the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe into Spanish. (10[1])A story formatted as a “letter to a young (10[1])lady (10[1])in” (10[1])this (10[1])city (10[3])concerns a narrator (10[2])who vomits rabbits. (10[2])In this (10[1])city, the (10[1])expats of the Serpent Club gather (10[1])at the apartment (-5[1])of (-5[1])La Maga (10[1])in a novel with (10[1])“expendable chapters.” (10[1])For 10 points, Julio Cortázar’s novel Hopscotch was partly inspired by what capital’s Left Bank? ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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