A Daily Dose of Literary Trivia

For some unknown reason, we've started tweeting a daily literary fact, somewhat abstrusely called Literary Fact of the Day.

For the non-tweeting out there, here's a run-down of what we chirped last week: 

• Ezra Pound once claimed that he had never read any Russian literature.
• Elizabeth Bishop refused to have her poetry published in anthologies of women's writing.
• Hemingway's personal library had 7000+ volumes including (deliciously) THREE copies of FItzgerald's THE CRACK-UP. 
• Faulkner wanted the text in The Sound in the Fury to be in four colors---one for each of the narrators.
• In 1572, Cervantes was captured by Algerian pirates and enslaved for 5 years, before eventually being ransomed.
• In 2010 dollars, Mr. Darcy's annual income would be about $600,000 per year.
• Shakespeare's only son died in 1596 at the age of 11. His name.....wait for it.........Hamnet. (yup, with an n).

So if you're up for a quotidian morsel of bookish trifles, follow us @readingape or you can search the hashtag #lfotd. If you aren't aboard the Twitter train, never fear: we'll do a run-down from time to time of what you've missed.