For 10 points, name this American postmodernist author of The Public Burning.
One story by this author juxtaposes an old woman plucking the heart out of a dove, with a boy strangling a dove to death as his sister tries to stop him. In another story by this author, Carruther wrongly accuses Martin of being the one who farts in the elevator every morning. One story by this author of "The Gingerbread House" illustrates a series of scenarios in which the protagonist does or does not have sex in a bathtub with her boyfriend Jack or employer Mr. Tucker, while taking care of Jimmy, Bitsy, and the baby; that story is "The (*) Babysitter". In the most famous novel by this author of Pricksongs and Descants, the protagonist has a sexual encounter with Ethel Rosenberg in Sing Sing shortly before she is executed in Times Square, after which Uncle Sam sodomizes that protagonist, Richard Nixon. For 10 points, name this American postmodernist author of The Public Burning.
One story by this author juxtaposes an old woman plucking the heart out of a dove, with a boy strangling a dove to death as his sister tries to stop him.
Robert (Lowell) Coover