Rebecca Makkai (born April 20, 1978) is an American novelist and short-story writer.
 Her first novel, "The Borrower", was released in June 2011.
 It was a "Booklist" Top Ten Debut, an Indie Next pick, an "O Magazine" selection, and one of "Chicago Magazine's" choices for best fiction of 2011.
 It was translated into seven languages.
 Her short stories have been anthologized in "The Best American Short Stories" 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 and as well as in ″The Best American Nonrequired Reading″" 2009 and 2016; she received a 2017 Pushcart Prize and a 2014 NEA fellowship.
 Her fiction has also appeared in "Ploughshares", "Tin House", "The Threepenny Review", "New England Review", and "Shenandoah".
 Her nonfiction has appeared in "Harpers" and on Salon.com and the "New Yorker" website.
 Makkai's stories have also been featured on Public Radio International's "Selected Shorts" and "This American Life."
 Her second novel, "The Hundred-Year House", is set in the Northern suburbs of Chicago, and was published by Viking/Penguin in July 2014, having received starred reviews in "Booklist", "Publishers Weekly" and "Library Journal".
 It won the 2015 Novel of the Year award from the Chicago Writers Association and was named a best book of 2014 by BookPage.
 Her short story collection, "Music for Wartime", was published by Viking in June 2015.
 A starred and featured review in "Publishers Weekly" said, "Though these stories alternate in time between WWII and the present day, they all are set, as described in the story “Exposition,” within “the borders of the human heart”—a terrain that their author maps uncommonly well.”
 "The Kansas City Star" wrote that "if any short story writer can be considered a rock star of the genre, it's Rebecca Makkai."
"The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson, written just months before its first publication, in the June 26, 1948, issue of "The New Yorker".
 The story describes a fictional small town which observes — as do many other communities, both large and small, throughout contemporary America — an annual ritual known as "the lottery".
 It has been described as "one of the most famous short stories in the history of American literature".
"Funnybot" is the second episode of the fifteenth season of the American animated television series "South Park", and the 211th episode of the series overall.
 "Funnybot" premiered in the United States on Comedy Central on May 4, 2011, the first time a "South Park" episode has aired in May since season 10's "Tsst" in 2006.
 "Funnybot" parodies The Comedy Awards, black comedian Tyler Perry, the Daleks from "Doctor Who", and the death of Osama bin Laden.
"Die Hippie, Die" is the second episode in the ninth season of the American animated television series "South Park".
 The 127th episode overall, it originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on March 16, 2005.
 In the episode, Cartman works to rid South Park from an infestation of hippies.
 The episode parodies the 2003 film "The Core".
The GM New Look bus, also commonly known by the nickname "Fishbowl" (for its six-piece rounded windshield), is a transit bus introduced in 1959 by Truck and Coach Division of General Motors and produced until 1986.
 More than 44,000 New Look buses were built.
 Its high production figures and long service career made it an iconic North American transit bus.
 The design is listed as by Roland E. Gegoux and William P. Strong.
"The Wacky Molestation Adventure" is the sixteenth episode of the fourth season of the animated television series "South Park", and the 64th episode of the series overall.
 "The Wacky Molestation Adventure" originally aired in the United States on December 13, 2000 on Comedy Central.
 The episode follows the children of South Park, who remove all adults from the town by claiming that they molested them.
 With the whole town to themselves, they create a new society, but it quickly deteriorates and two separate groups are formed.
 Much of the episode's plot is inspired by the 1984 film "Children of the Corn", based on the Stephen King short story.
"Jared Has Aides" is the first episode of the sixth season of the adult American animated television series "South Park".
 It first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on March 6, 2002.
 The episode was rated TV-MA in the United States, except on syndicated broadcasts, where it is rated TV-14 instead.
 In the episode, weight loss advocate Jared Fogle incurs the wrath of South Park after he announces that he lost weight because he has aides (misinterpreted as AIDS).
 This leads the boys to try to use Butters as their own advocate for City Wok.
 The episode also parodies the film "Philadelphia".
Glimmer Train is an American short story literary journal.
 It is published quarterly, accepting works primarily from emerging writers.
 Stories published in "Glimmer Train" have been listed in "The Best American Short Stories", as well as appearing in recent editions of the "Pushcart Prize", "The PEN/O.
 Henry Prize Stories", and anthologies for "New Stories from the Midwest", "New Stories from the South", and "Best American Short Stories".
 The journal holds 12 short story fiction contests a year, paying out over $50,000 on an annual basis.
"Britney's New Look" is the second episode in the twelfth season of the animated television series "South Park", and the 169th episode of the series overall.
 It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on March 19, 2008.
 In the episode, Kyle Broflovski and Stan Marsh take pity on Britney Spears after a botched attempt at suicide that removes the upper two-thirds of her head, and try to save her from the cruel cycle of cultural martyrdom.
 The episode parodies the American short story "The Lottery".
 The episode also features cameos of all the one-off adult characters of the entire series throughout the episode, including Radiohead and Gene Hackman.
Soldier's Home is a 1977 American short film adaptation of the 1925 short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway which was originally broadcast as part of "The American Short Story" series on PBS on April 25, 1977.
 It was directed by Robert Young, adapted by Robert Geller and starred Richard Backus and Nancy Marchand.
 The musical score is by Dick Hyman.

Question: The "South Park" episode "Britney's New Look" parodies an American short story by what author?
Answer: Shirley Jackson