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Now available for preorder:
The San Francisco Panorama.
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- - - - "OUTFOX(X)ING THE COMPETITION" ANSWERS Last month, during the Collins Library Lady Into Fox Week, we presented a number of chapter headings and asked readers to determine which were taken from the nature text Red Fox: The Catlike Canine by J. David Henry, which were cribbed from the celebrity biography Redd Foxx: B.S. (Before Sanford), and which were altogether made up. With twenty correct answers, the winner of a McSweeney's book is Brian Burke. At the end of his entry, Brian asks the Brain Exploder: "Who or What is Gershry (No. 27)? I may have been wrong in placing Gershry in the Made Up column, but for all I can tell no such thing as Gershry has ever existed. My uncle was an architect named Frank who lived in the Chocolate Regions of Pennsylvania. So maybe it's him." Well, Brian, we no longer have the Redd Foxx book in front of us (we had to travel to a library four towns over just to find it in the first place) but we remember that it was a reference to some particular individual's pronunciation of "Jersey"as in "New Jersey."If you still can't sleep until you find out exactly who spoke with that particular dialect we'll just make something up to make you feel better: It was Eddie Fisher. No one, incidentally, correctly identified all four fictional chapters, a fact of which we are inappropriately proud. Paul Elsberg is the only reader to get three of them; he also scored 19 of 30 on the quiz, just one short of our winner. To satisfy your curiosity, here are the correct answers (as a key, we will use a clever system devised by Erik Moe for his entry, which included a respectable 18 of 30 correct answers): 1. Growing Up Fox(x) Style: FOX
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