Portal:Literature/Did you know/Week 26

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... that the Index Librorum Prohibitorum is a list of banned books?

... that the title of Ethel Lina White's first crime novel, Put Out the Light (1931), is a quotation from Othello? ("Put out the Light, and then put out the Light: If I quench thee, thou flaming Minister, [...])

... that Vladimir Nabokov once described Boris Pasternak as "Emily Dickinson in trousers"?

... that gonzo journalism is a style of reporting associated with Hunter S. Thompson?

... that "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" is an elegy written by Walt Whitman shortly after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?

... that Martin Luther translated the Bible into German to make it more accessible to the common people?

... that U.S. actor Eddie Constantine played Peter Cheyney's hard-boiled detective Lemmy Caution in a series of French B-movies, starting with La Môme vert-de-gris (1953)?