/lit/ - Literature

These are always interesting. Literary trivia thread.

Russian surrealist writer Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky and his wife lived in separate apartments on opposite sides of Moscow, as he felt living together would "kill the poetry" of their relationship.

While living in France, Samuel Beckett used to drive Andre the Giant to school after he became too big to fit on the bus

Nathanael West died in a car crash while on his way to F. Scott Fitzgerald's funeral.

>>7794898
atheism is like being in a dark room and saying, "There is no cat," and remaining in the dark

alt lit

>>7049584
>tfw it's only been a little over 2 months since that post
>tfw 2 months on /lit/ seems like eternity
>tfw we are in hell

Does nationalism have a place in 21st century society?

what up nerds
i want to get my 15 year old brother into reading and want to give him a book for christmas, which of these do you think would be most suitable:
crying of lot 49
the stranger
slaughterhouse 5
other suggestions welcome

he likes cars, having bad grades in school and not reading