The Weekly LitWit Challenge 7.5: What is going on here? (Read the entries)
Oops, we got the date of the deadline wrong. Submit your entries by 11.59 pm tonight, November 7, 2011.
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Here’s one of the etchings from Picasso’s Suite Vollard, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila at the Central Bank complex on Roxas Boulevard, Manila, starting 10 November.
What is going on here? Make up a story in 1,000 words or less and post it in Comments on or before Monday, 7 November 2011, at 11.59 pm. The winner will receive these three books:
An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin, The Magicians by Lev Grossman, and Why I Am So Wise (Ecce Homo) by Friedrich Nietzche.
The Weekly LitWit Challenge is brought to you by our friends at National Bookstore.
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The winners of the Weekly LitWit Challenge 7.5: Spy Story are juned and strange attractor313. We didn’t get many entries—the espionage tale is a demanding genre—but we are very pleased with these two. strangeattractor313, you get a bonus for spinning off an episode in the Smiley books. Apart from the fresh copy of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, you will receive Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, The Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II by William Stevenson.
Congratulations! Please post your full names in Comments (They won’t be published) and we’ll alert you when you can pick up your prizes at National Bookstore, Power Plant Mall, Rockwell, Makati. Or you can claim them at the 5th anniversary cocktails on November 10—let us know if you can make it.