/lit/ - Literature

Depends on the country.

For America, either the Second World War or Vietnam. Iraq and Trashcanistan have potential to produce great literature but so far all we've gotten is Phil Klay's meme tier short story collection. At least we got Anthony Swofford out of the Gulf War.

>>9112567
Marine POG here.

Knew a guy who wrote erotic novels as a hobby and another who wrote shitty science fiction (had an entire universe mapped out in a level of detail that would impress Tolkien).

Pretty much everyone will call you a fag for being literate. Only the Officers have ever even picked up a book, and even then only because it was assigned reading in college or whatever.

My advice: if you're joining because you really want to join then good for you. On the other hand if you're a starving artist desperate for something to write about and just want to live out your Hemingway fantasies then fuck off cause you're just going to get people killed.