DID YOU KNOW: Neil Gaiman's first published book was a biography of the band Duran Duran? Published in 1984, he calls it "the worst thing" he's ever written, and has never allowed it to be reprinted. (Source: The Telegraph) #LitsyTriviature
DID YOU KNOW: Neil Gaiman's first published book was a biography of the band Duran Duran? Published in 1984, he calls it "the worst thing" he's ever written, and has never allowed it to be reprinted. (Source: The Telegraph) #LitsyTriviature
DID YOU KNOW: In 1976, Mario Vargas Llosa slugged Gabriel García Márquez!!! "Some had surmised that the fight may have been over politics, since Mr. García Márquez has always been on the left and Mr. Vargas Llosa at the time had begun to migrate to the right... But, as Mr. Moya explains, the cause was a woman, specifically, Mr. Vargas Llosa‘s wife, whom Mr. García Márquez consoled during a difficult period in the marriage." #LitsyTriviature
DID YOU KNOW: Flannery O'Connor taught a chicken to walk backwards? "When I was five, I had an experience that marked me for life. Pathé News sent a photographer from New York to Savannah to take a picture of a chicken of mine." (Read the rest of Flannery's remarks on the experience in the comments below!) #LitsyTriviature
Hey, Littens! We are going to be adding more content to the @Litsy account, including staff picks, book recommendations, #FunFridayPhoto, #Recommendsday, and #LitsyTriviature! Today's first triviature post is about Dame Christie. SWOON. I think you can never go wrong with more book talk, so follow along for more bookish fun! 😘🤘🏻📚
DID YOU KNOW: Agatha Christie is the queen of crime, but she was also a huge fan of surfing, and is widely considered one of Britain's first "stand-up" surfers. "I learned to become expert – or at any rate expert from the European point of view – the moment of complete triumph on the day that I kept my balance and came right into shore standing upright on my board!" ? ? ? (Photo: Museum of British Surfing) #LitsyTriviature