/lit/ - Literature

I read this one again for the third or fourth time aloud to my gf and was surprised by how funny some stories are when you take your time with them. The humor can easily be lost when read in silence.

I made a list of Catholic novelists to check out. There are some on the list I'm already familiar with which I'll mark with a star (I originally compiled this list just to see how many Catholic novelists there are). Anyone else care to add more novelists? Strictly speaking, I only want writers who were Catholic and wrote primarily novels.

American
F. Scott Fitzgerald*
Ernest Hemingway*
Jack Kerouac*
Frank McCourt
Malachy McCourt
Flannery O'Connor*
Walker Percy
George Santayana
John Kennedy Toole
Gene Wolfe

English
Anthony Burgess*
G. K. Chesterton
Graham Greene*
J. R. R. Tolkien*
Evelyn Waugh* (actually seen the 80's TV series with Jeremy Irons but have not read Brideshead)

French
Honoré de Balzac
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
Georges Bernanos
Leon Bloy
Joris-Karl Huysmans*
François Mauriac
Jean Raspail

German
Heinrich Böll
Alfred Döblin
Erich Maria Remarque

Irish
James Joyce*
Flann O'Brien

Italian
Alessandro Manzoni

Japanese
Shusaku Endo

Spanish
Miguel de Cervantes*
Miguel de Unamuno

Can you recommend some comfy short story collections?

ITT we post our favorite short story collections.

Hey /lit/, question for any fellow writers here.

I started writing with short stories from elementary school up through mid high school, and then in late high school I switched over to screenplays and have been writing them ever since. Recently I've been getting more and more interested in the idea of trying out a novel, but jumping back intro prose after getting so used to the stripped down style and shortness of screenplays is very difficult for me.

Do any of you often switch between different formats like this? What do you find is the best way to quickly acclimate yourself and settle in when you do?

What book do you carry around with you at all times to look hip and just-the-right-amount of pretentious when someone happens to notice it? The one that you read in public and every so often glance up from to see if anyone is eyeing the cover. You know, the one you place next to you cup of coffee and take Instagrams of?

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