/lit/ - Literature

>>6250089
Lady farts gave James Joyce a big boner.

>>6250089
Celine's last words were :^)

>>6250089
brb watching their scenes again

Christian Kracht allegedly once said "Nick Hornby looks like a Penis.".

>>6250089
Murakami is a closeted homo. He also likes to go for runs.

Tao Lin was once violently assaulted and robbed at night in New Jersey by a group of African-American men.

Carson McCullers once allegedly punched Flannery O'Connor in the cunt on a dare from Gertrude Stein.

>>6250131
Who are they?

>>6250199
that's hawt

>>6250089
They all killed themselves, or were alcoholics, or both.

In his youth DFW was an avid player of dungeons and dragons

>>6250199
lmao

>>6250210
french actresses who played lesbians in http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2278871/?ref_=nv_sr_1

They have unbelievably faptastic scenes, and the movie itself is actually bretty gud

He never died. He turned into a cockroach.

>>6250239
Will watch. Blue hair is hot. Swimsuits are hot. My imagination is hot.

>>6250247
It's on netflix too, have fun

JEROME DAVID SALINGER COLLECTED (UNOPENED) BOXES OF CHOCOLATES; HE HAD SO MANY THAT LARGE SECTIONS OF HIS HOUSE'S WALLS, IN CORNISH, WERE LINED WITH THEM FROM FLOOR TO CEILING.

I DO NOT KNOW WHY THIS FACT IS NOT WELL KNOWN, NOR WHY IS IT NOT MENTIONED IN ANY OF THE DOCUMENTARIES REGARDING HIM.

>>6250334
WELL IF YOU HAVE NO SOURCES FOR YOUR CLAIM WHY WOULD DOCUMENTARIES MENTION IT IF IT'S NOT PROVEN

ALSO FUCK YOUR GIMMICKY SCREAMING

>>6250341
WELL PERHAPS HE'S WONDERING WHY WOULD ANYBODY SHOOT A MAN BEFORE THROWING HIM OUT OF A PLANE

>>6250239
Excellent film

>>6250341
>All caps signifies yelling.

What do you think is the function of the exclamation mark?

Kill yourself, my man.

>>6250349
why would you want the body hanging around, perhaps he wanted to shoot the man, simply put some lead in a fool, ya know

>>6250247
>>6250249
watching bitwc for the sex scenes

>>6250349
People have been known to survive falling out of planes. (Free-fall velocity is constrained by air resistance, plus you can fall into something soft like tree branches or snow.)

Buk had an 8 inch cock

>>6250425
So do i but my poetry is actually good l m a o

Kant allegedly had his hands tied to his bed by his maid nightly to stop himself from masturbating.

>>6250334
Why do you put everything in caps?

>>6250447
>y had his hands tied to his bed by his maid nightly to stop himself from masturbating.
poor soul, why though?
did it not make the bleed leavr his head or wsomething?

>>6250447
I kant believe it

>>6250239
>movie about hot lesbians

It's like the 90s all over again.

>>6250447
>Reading a philosophy who never left his home town.

>>6250501
>believing experience teaches you anything worthwhile

>>6250501
>Reading a religious "philosopher".

>>6250349
>>6250359
>>6250376
You idiots. If he didn't pretend to shoot them the other guys would know he didn't really throw them out of the plane (since they'd expect screams).

>>6250334
Source?

>>6250501
>reading a NEET uggo who likes anime

>>6251208
>following a greentext comeback

she mostly does anal

>>6251178

THE LOGOS.

>>6250089
When Michael Moorcock was hitting his stride in the late sixties, he would write a book in three days, then get blind drunk and break plate glass windows in shops.

>>6250447

What they don't tell you is that his maid used to masturbate him instead.

Salman Rushdie came up with the phrase "naughty but nice" to advertise cream cakes.

>>6250199
Tao lin had sexual intercourse with a 16 year old girl in her parent's bed when he was 22.

I have no problem with this

While Rushdie wasn't actually assasinated for writing the Satanic Verses because he was put under police protection with his desert gold, many different translators for the book, including Norweigan, Japanese, and Italian got shanked by internationally-associated vigilante islam religious fucks.
Thousands of mudslimes in the UK gathered to burn the book, and it doesn't stop there, the timeline of degeneracy in response to the book is huge.
>thousands of people die all over the world die over this
>Rushdie goaded into an apology, being told it will 'grant him a pardon' by the desert overlords
>cucked by censorship, Rushdie writes out an official public apology.
>then
>5 bookstores bombed in London
>millions of dollars (presumably payable in crude oil and 9 year old virgins) now offered as a reward for death of Rushdie
>independant bookstores firebombed in the US
>Swedish people on nobel prize jury leave because the commission refuses to include him
>Intellectuals and professors die in Turkey at literary festival
>Iran cut off diplomatic relations with Britain, because of book, yes really
>Rushie is knighted, British muslims lose their shit
>now regularly bangs supermodels because it's pretty badass when thousands of people keep trying to kill you and they can't

bump

>>6250564
>Reading a philosopher

>In 1834 Gogol was made Professor of Medieval History at the University of St. Petersburg, a job for which he had no qualifications. He turned in a performance ludicrous enough to warrant satiric treatment in one of his own stories. After an introductory lecture made up of brilliant generalizations which the 'historian' had prudently prepared and memorized, he gave up all pretense at erudition and teaching, missed two lectures out of three, and when he did appear, muttered unintelligibly through his teeth. At the final examination, he sat in utter silence with a black handkerchief wrapped around his head, simulating a toothache, while another professor interrogated the students. This academic venture proved a failure and he resigned his chair in 1835

based as fuck.

>>6250454
Ain't nothin but a Rei thing.

>>6253011
What a god.

>>6253011
Sounds like a failure, tbh

Anyone read the Namesake by that Indian slore?
>The main character in it is given the name 'Gogol' even though he's Indian
>wonders about the origin of his name
>Gogol IRL was given that surname spontaneously
>daddy gog wants family to be part of the aristocracy
>creates fake name 'Gogol', supposedly in relation to some wealthy, historical family from Russia

>>6250199
that's good

>>6253027
I had to read it in my high school English class.

It wasn't too bad, but a bit boring. My mom loved it though, she eats shit like that up.

>>6253034
>she eats shit

Patricia Highsmith wrote comic books.

Allegedly Gore Vidal never went after William Buckly Jr. Because William and his family had dirt on Gore. He allegedly went to South East Asia to have sex with underaged hookers.

William Gibson was a Vietnam War draft dodger.

>>6253069
That's nothing, Margaret Atwood has written and illustrated comics

>factoids and urban legends about pet authors

this is every /lit/ thread, every day. now get outta my pub!

>>6250089
Adolf Hitler became a politician

>>6253128
'kek'

> In response to a neighbor's complaint that his target shooting endangered her children, he replied, "If that should ever happen, ma-da-me, we should ourselves be happy to get new ones with you".

Alfred Jarry. His last words were him asking for a toothpick.

not an author but still based as fuck
>in the 40s or 50s Nat King Cole moved to the Deep South, and within a week the KKK knocked on his door. Allegedly they had set up a wooden cross on his lawn. They said "we don't want no unsavoury types around here." and Nat replied "Okay, i'll let you know if I see any" and slammed the door.

later they firebombed the church he attended

>>6253102
Fuck off Peggy, you've only got one tit.

WHEN a young man came up to Joyce in Zurich and said, `May I kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses?' Joyce replied, somewhat like King Lear, `No, it's done some other things too'

When at Oxford Shelley would sit in his room and read for 16 hours in a row, not stopping to eat.

Keats once beat up a butcher's boy who he saw abusing a cat.

>>6255288
whoM

Beckett had an affair with Peggy Guggenheim (heiress and famous art collector). Her alias for him in her diary was Oblomov

When William S. Burroughs met Samuel Beckett, someone asked Beckett what he thought of Burroughs. He said, grudgingly, “Well, he’s a writer.”

>>6255249
LIKE FEEL UP THE INSIDE OF MOLLY'S ANUS

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>>6250094
what the fuck

>>6251908
This or that?

>>6250354
That's you. This can't be some anon defending you. I knew you break your character.

>>6250239
>the movie itself is actually bretty gud
>>6250353
>Excellent film
>>6250366
>watching bitwc for the sex scenes

But it's not a great movie. It's a movie about a relationship. A lesbian relationship, yes, but other than that, what's so interesting about it?

If they made a movie like this about an heterosexual couple, would it be great too? No.

>>6250199
kek, I actually have the sauce for that

http://thoughtcatalog.com/tao-lin/2012/12/i-livetweeted-getting-robbed-watching-the-hobbit-alone-on-christmas-eve/

Umberto Eco is a goliard. He's always making jokes, always.

He and Borges once had a heated argument about laughter. Eco said that laughter was a sign of intelligence but Borges said it was an obnoxious gesture that made people look like animals. You can read about this in "The Name of The Rose". And ctually Jorge de Burgos is Borges.

Eco's novels take years of research. "Foucault's Pendulum" took him 8 years. This research is often used in a lot of his non-fictional work on Semiotics.

>>6255277
I can do this, but with the Internet.

Tao Lin's father is the holder of one of the central LASIK patents

https://encrypted.google.com/patents/US5520679

He's filthy rich and his writing shows.

>>6255303

>According to both Guggenheim and her biographer Anton Gill, she had a voracious sexual appetite and it was believed that, while living in Europe, she had "slept with 1,000 men". She claimed to have had affairs with numerous artists and writers, and in return many artists and others have claimed affairs with her.

>>6253072
The sprawl trilogy is still badass

>>6250239
>lesbians
straight people are so stupid
>>6255406
>This movie is about cyborgs. If it were about normal people, it would be boring. Therefore this movie is boring.

>>6250334
he also drank his own piss and was on the early train for insane "health" diets
also liked to date barely of age girls, take them to florida for vacation, then dumb them when they turned 20/too old

>>6255898
also when he was young he dated a girl broke up with him to married charlie chaplin (who was then old and she was still a teen)

>>6253102
>>6253795

Barbara Windsor used to write screenplays for the Carry On movies under the pseudonym Gerald Nemo.

She also wrote several screenplays for other comedy franchises like On the Buses.

>But it’s still something of a shock to see the extent to which Wallace—the perspiring, softly spoken and tortuously sincere figure of popular affection—could himself be a Hideous Man. Sure, his friend Jonathan Franzen felt compelled to point out that Wallace was never “Saint Dave,” but it’s another thing entirely to see him walking through the Amherst campus as an undergraduate, remarking on the springtime “smell of cunt in the air.” We later learn that Orin Incandenza’s penchant, in Infinite Jest, for seducing young mothers is in fact something he shared with his creator. We learn about DFW’s womanizing, about his book-tour fondness for “audience pussy,” and that he once wondered aloud to Franzen about whether his only purpose in life was “to put my penis in as many vaginas as possible.”

Virginia Woolf and her best friends once got all decked up in blackfac, successfully convinced the British Royal Navy that they were the Abyssinian royal family, and got a tour of the first HMS Dreadnought.

Sherman Alexie isn't actually Native American. He's German.

>>6255974
and a kkk member who was a speechwriter for george wallace

>>6255406
What is this meme about putting pizzas in strange places

>>6255784
I read the wiki on that movie and it said nothing about cyborgs, I feel you took me for a ride Muck.

leo tolstoy helped publish anarchist papers

>>6255963
>"hideous" man
>all he does is have sex with women

>>6255727
I don't remember, but Duchamp either tapped that booty or they lived in sexual tension for their whole lifes

>>6256432
He plotted to kill his 3D waifu's husband
i'm not joking

>>6250201

>>6250089
Morrissey once played in a band.

>>6255963
>“to put my penis in as many vaginas as possible.”
People talk like that all the time, come on.

>Like many writers in residence at universities, Ray was required to teach English courses in addition to creative writing courses. One was called Form and Theory of the Short Story, a title Ray inherited from the graduate English catalogue. His method in these classes was to assign a book of stories he liked each week, including contemporary and 19th-century authors as well as works in translation. We would read the books and discuss them for two hours. Flannery O'Connor, Chekhov, Anne Beattie, Maupassant, Frank O'Connor, John Cheever, Mary Robison, Turgenev and more Chekhov. (He loved all the 19th-century Russians.) Class would begin with Ray saying something like, ''Well, guys, how'd you like Eudora Welty?'' He preferred listening to lecturing, but he would read his favorite passages, talk about what he loved in the book he had chosen. He dealt in specifics, stayed close to the text, and eventually there would come a moment when the nervousness would lift off of him as he spoke about writing that moved him.
One semester, a very earnest Ph.D. candidate found his way into this class, composed mainly of writers. At that time, the English department, like many around the country, had become a battleground between theorists and humanists, and post-structuralism lay heavy upon the campus. After a few weeks of Carver's free-ranging and impressionistic approach to literature, the young theorist registered a strong protest: ''This class is called Form and Theory of the Short Story but all we do is sit around and talk about the books. Where's the form and the theory?''
Ray looked distressed. He nodded and pulled extra hard on his cigarette. ''Well, that's a good question,'' he said. After a long pause, he said, ''I guess I'd say that the point here is that we read good books and discuss them. . . . And then you form your own theory.'' Then he smiled.

Based Raymond Carver

>>6257253
Then an eagle named "free form" flew into the room right?

>>6257253
aka he was too lazy to teach the class properly

>>6257268
He was probably more concerned with his students learning to study literature in a more organic and practical way, rather than teaching his students to analyze writing through the lens of endlessly subjective and self-reflexive post-modern thought. You can academically analyze literature all you want, but it doesn't teach you anything that you can appy practically to your own writing other than soulless post modern pyrotechnics. I would take a class taught by Carver over some stuffy academic any day. I also like how Carver turned that guys criticism around on him, applying his own interpretation and understanding of what the words "form" and "theory" connote.

>>6257314
But academically analysing literature can help someone just in a general sense of grasping the work. Sometimes just understanding the work is the best tool for a writer.

>>6253072
He was also a dirty post-hippy.
Dat prose tho.

Norman Mailer almost killed his wife when he stabbed her with a pen knife

>>6257314
>I also like how Carver turned that guys criticism around on him, applying his own interpretation and understanding of what the words "form" and "theory" connote.

>I'm going to arbitrarily define these terms in a way totally opposed to how they're actually used, so that I'll be right

Wittgenstein didn't die for this.

>>6257497
>almost
>how adorable.

>>6257253
I recently read Borges' "A Course on English Literature" and the style of lecturing is very similar, interesting

>>6257565
got a link?

>>6250094
>>6250447
These aren't factoids, they are facts. Do you faggots even know what factoids are?

Gertrude Stein ate THE first pot brownie

>>6257677
I'm not sure if the thing about Kant is true, anyone got source on that?

>>6255545

those are facts, not factoids

>>6251851

I once broke plate glass in a shop, fucking huge plates, drunk and on acid. I didn't write anything though.

>>6255545
Joyce spent 8 years writing Ulysses

Eco spent 8 years writing Foucault's Pendulum

nuff said, Eco is shit

I saw David Foster Wallace at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn't want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, "Oh, like you're doing now?" I was taken aback, and all I could say was "Huh?" but he kept cutting me off and going "huh? huh? huh?" and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw DFW trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like "Sir, you need to pay for those first." At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually "to prevent any electrical infetterence," and then turned around and winked at me. I don't even think that's a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

>>6257556
/10

>Chesterton carried a cane-sword on him at all times. When asked why he carried it, he claimed that he first purchased ot the day after his wedding and it was to be utilized only to defend his wife's honor.

>Cormac McCarthy once built his own house with his bare hands in rural Tennessee. (This is where he got most of the inspiration to write The Stonemason)

>Melville died in obscurity
"There are more people to-day, writes Edward Bok, who believe Herman Melville dead than there are those who know he is living. And yet if one choose to walk along East Eighteenth Street, New York City, any morning about 9 o'clock, he would see the famous writer of sea stories -- stories which have never been equalled perhaps in their special line. Mr. Melville is now an old man, but still vigorous. He is an employee of the Customs Revenue Service, and thus still lingers around the atmosphere which permeated his books. Forty-four years ago, when his most famous tale, Typee, appeared, there was not a better known author than he, and he commanded his own prices. Publishers sought him, and editors considered themselves fortunate to secure his name as a literary star. And to-day? Busy New York has no idea he is even alive, and one of the best-informed literary men in this country laughed recently at my statement that Herman Melville was his neighbor by only two city blocks. "Nonsense," said he. "Why, Melville is dead these many years!" Talk about literary fame? There's a sample of it!"-Taken from an excerpt from New York Publisher's less than a year before his death

>"Herman Melville died yesterday at his residence, 104 East Twenty-sixth Street, this city, of heart failure, aged seventy-two. He was the author of Typee, Omoo, Mobie Dick, and other sea-faring tales, written in earlier years. He leaves a wife and two daughters, Mrs. M. B. Thomas and Miss Melville."-His obituary in the New York Times.

>>6257677
>>6258988
Goddammit, /lit/. I see a lot of "facts" in this thread too.

Eco being a goliard is not a fact, because nobody talks about it.

Fernando Pessoa died of liver cirrhosis. He used to drink a lot.

>yfw Pessoa was more of a hardcore drinker than Bukowski and he didn't even brag about it

He was in active military service during WW2.

Borges wrote some famous football chants in Argentina.