Nick and I just bought books from Caveat Emptor (the used bookstore on the Square) for tomorrow’s NAQT Indiana State Qualifier. The prizes:

First and second place teams:

• Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of American Writers
• Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History

Individual prizes:

• Aristophanes’s The Clouds, The Birds, Lysistrata, and The Frogs
• García Márquez’s El amor en los tiempos del cólera
• Lewis’s Babbitt
• The Lake District (a Lake Poets anthology)
• Mann’s Der Tod  in Venedig (and other stories)

Neg prize:

• Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot