"J" in Literature by HensleyB

The text below has been excerpted from a novel by what author?

The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn. And I have never had one.

One of the title characters has a nickname based on the month of her birth. The other title character received his nickname on account of his particular gait. Name this play that debuted at the Abbey Theatre in 1924.

In what Katherine Anne Porter short story does a dying woman recall being left at the altar by her love George, and feels rejected a second time when God does not provide a sign that she is loved?

What word fills the blank in this stanza from a Wallace Stevens poem?

I placed a ___ in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill.
It made the slovenly wilderness
Surround that hill.

"North and South," "Love and War," and "Heaven and Hell" form a trilogy written by what author?

The 2015 Booker Prize-winning novel "A Brief History of Seven Killings" is a work of what Jamaican author?

Barabas, the title character, is boiled alive in a cauldron at the end of what play?

Often attributed to Wu Cheng'en, what novel tells of a monk's travels to India to obtain sacred texts and was notably translated into English with the title "Monkey"?

What novel centers on the difficult lives of Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus and his family in Chicago?

What Roman poet asks in his "Satires," "What? Am I to be a listener only all my days? Am I never to get my word in..."?

"Feathers from a Thousand Li Away," "Twenty-Six Malignant Gates," "American Translation," and "Queen Mother of the Western Skies" are the four sections of what novel?

The gloomy Thornfield Hall provides the setting for much of which 1847 novel?