/lit/ - Literature

>>2343120
though i've never read anything by him, I was still pretty dumbstruck several years ago when I saw Salman Rushdie waiting on the sidewalk for a table to open up as I left the restaurant I had brunch at. he saw me as I recognized him, then he ignored me as I whispered to my companions "yo, that's Salman rushdie! Million dollar bounty on his head!"

turns out he had just accepted a professorship at Emory, so that explains his presence in atlanta.

>>2343150
If I saw him I'd start acting suspiciously, fidgeting with my pockets and mumbling about Allah for the lulz. Bet it would take less than ten minutes to get arrested.

If I saw Thomas Pynchon I'd pull down my pants and start fapping on the spot.

>Approach eccentric octogenarian scotsman outside a pub

>Get bitchslapped

i really can't see it going any other way, you dodged a bullet op.

ITT: OP's poor facility with faces results in nearly importuning an elderly man

>>2343207
Nah, it was most certainly him. He stays in the West End of Glasgow and I've lived there for the last four years, so bumping into him isn't an unlikely occurrence.

>>2343208
Fair enough. I just wanted to gratuitously use the word "importuning" tbh.

Just realised he's the guy who wrote Lanark, which is one of those books I've been meaning to read for years.

>>2343217
It's a difficult read but it's worth it.

Gray is one of those writers who seems to be only known for his first novel, but his later work is excellent too, especially his short stories. I particularly enjoyed The Ends of Our Tethers.

fucking smokers. i will laugh when you get lung cancer and die.

I'm not sure I even have a favourite writer, but I got drunk with Neil Gaiman at a hotel bar once.

He must frequent Oran Mor, OP, I went to see Deerhunter with a friend last year and she pointed him out.

Also I saw Salman Rushdie in a restaurant in London. He's really fucking small.

All my favourite writers are deaaaad

>>2343355
I think he does frequent the place. Besides his murals there I once saw some good old fashioned graffiti in the mens toilets signed by him. Not sure if it was an 'authentic Gray' but photographed it anyway. Can't find the photo, must be on my other computer.

>>2343355
I've noticed this in photographs. Despite being a hideous short-arse Rushdie's not half bad at picking up gorgeous, tall women.

Bump with reference to question:

>What would you like to say to your favourite living writer if they passed you in the street? Do you think that nerves would hit you and like me, you'd do nothing at all?
>Have you ever met your favourite living writer? What happened?

>>2343627

It's the eyes.

>>2344597
I think you're onto something there. His eyes have this smug, self-satisfied look but to the point that his stare is so arrogant that there must be something pretty damn good about him.

Dear God, what I wouldn't give to fuck 13. Lucky bastard.

I've met Ian Hislop a few times, once at a student journalism thing and another time at the National theatre. Shit was cash.

>>2344901
I've got a friend who works the crepe van outside a comedy club during the Edinburgh festival. He's served crepes to Stewart Lee, Paul Merton, Dara O'Briain, David Mitchell, Bill Bailey, Armando Ianucci and that's just naming a few of the comedians who don't deserve to be shot in the head.

>>2344609
And /sci/entists say women aren't attracted to intelligence

I met Carlos Fuentes in a bar at Hay one year. I think I managed to ask him something deathless and intellectual like "How do you keep your moustache so neat". Something like that. I was a complete arse, tbh.

>>2346531

i saw my favourite musician (at the time, maybe still -- jim o'rourke) in a club once, we were both there to see someone else's show. he apologized to me (in the local language) to get past coming from the lockers, i didn't say anything, only remarked to my girlfriend at the time a short while after who the guy was
i think with a writer i would have said something because you would actually have something to talk about.

>>2343410
I just found that toilet graffiti of Alasdair Gray. I was drunk and couldn't hold my phone steady so the image quality is terrible. Looking at it again I suspect it isn't an authentic self-portrait...

>>2346546

Usually when someone does a self-portrait, they don't put an arrow pointing to themselves with their name next to it.

I suspect that's one of the regulars having a laugh.

I haven't been to Glasgow for time - I'll have to check out the Oran Mor if I ever go back. The murals look amazing.

A writer of sorts, I met Josie Long in Paris, she was lovely and I was awkward. The authors I hold in the highest regard are dead, but I wish I could meet Alan Moore one day.

>>2346559
I think I gave Alan Moore money once. I thought he was homeless. He asked me about sim cards.

>>2346562
I love /lit/.