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I've got money on Nick Cave but at this point's it's still anybody's game: http://bit.ly/1Vxviq 12/7/2009 |
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@maayancohen בין המועמדים היו גם פיליפ רות' ועמוס עוז. ג'ונתן ליטל ניצח (המועמדיםhttp://bit.ly/4gcCNJ / הזוכה http://bit.ly/80PWTp) 12/2/2009 |
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I LOVE the Bad Sex Awards!! RT @randomreaders The Bad Sex Awards are handed out today in the UK. Who will take it out? http://tiny.cc/Th22u 11/30/2009 |
Hard decision ...
Books, Inq. — The Epilogue —
... Bad sex award shortlist pits Philip Roth against stiff competition. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) ...
The Best of Bad Sex Writing
The Second Pass —
... The finalists for this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award have been announced. Auberon Waugh started the award to “draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it.” We can only hope that Philip Roth will be discouraged, but that doesn’t seem likely. He is nominated for a scene in ...
Philips Roth Makes 2009 Bad Sex in Fiction Shortlist for ‘The Humbling’ – Jonathan Lethem’s ‘Chronic City’ Is Spared
One-Minute Book Reviews —
... The Guardian story has the names of all the finalists, who include Paul Theroux for A Dead Hand and Amos Oz for Rhyming Life and Death. Oz is an Israeli novelist who was widely seen as a frontrunner for the 2009 Nobel Prize. The judges spared the latest novel by Jonathan Lethem, ...
'Bad Sex' finalists
the Literary Saloon —
... , but Alison Flood has the lowdown in Bad sex award shortlist pits Philip Roth against stiff competition in The Guardian. ...
Blog of a Bookslut — ... Usually I wait for the brilliant Margaret Howie to take her shots at the Bad Sex in Literature awards, but the Guardian article contains this bit of information: ...
Philip Roth on Bad Sex Award Shortlist
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat —
... Yesterday the Literary Review announced the shortlist for their annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award; a list that includes a rock star, a Nobel Prize favorite, and of course, ...
Thursday Morning LitLinks
Author Scoop —
... pulls the plug on the Michael Chabon-penned, $150 million production of “Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.” (LATimes)
Andre Motion to chair the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010. (The Literary Saloon)
If you’d like to relive the magic of last night’s ceremonies, Jason Boog live-blogged them. (GalleyCat)
Philip Roth, Amos Oz, Paul Theroux and Nick Cave all make it to the shortlist for the bad sex award. (The Guardian)
Happy birthday, Margaret Atwood (one day late, yeah, but ...
Bookmarks: Birthday wishes for Margaret Atwood, and more
Quill & Quire —
... the shortlist for the annual Bad Sex in Fiction award. On this year’s list are Philip Roth – no surprise there – Nick Cave, Paul Theroux, and Jonathan Littell ...
17th annual Bad Sex Awards shortlist
Reading Copy Book Blog —
... The shortlist was announced in yesterdays Guardian where an excerpt from Philip Roth’s nominated novel The Humbling which stars a large green dildo. ...
Things I will not be writing about
A Commonplace Blog —
... yucked up for it, or the reasons for the elite disdain toward her. • Who really wrote Dreams from My Father, or whether it really is one of the top three books of the decade. • Yuri Foreman’s super welterweight title, although it’s way cool. • Whether Dmitri Nabokov was right to publish The Original of Laura, or what John Banville’s thinks of it. • Yann Martel’s opinions on Canadian politics. • The Bad-Sex-in-Fiction Award. • The war between Malcolm Gladwell and ...
Bad Sex is back
MOBYLIVES —
... Of course, none of that holds in the event that 1) we win the award and/or 2) you’re talking about the Bad Sex Awards, which we are. Yes, it’s that time of year again. As Alison Flood informs the world in this Guardian report, the shortlist has been announced, and the nominees include Philip Roth, John Banville, Amos Oz, Jonathan Littell, Paul Theroux, and 23-year-old Richard Milward, for his novel Ten Storey Love Song, which is comprised of “just one paragraph and replete ...
ampere’s and
3:AM Magazine —
... Today’s quick lit [& alt.cult] links from around the web:
Tom’s glossary of book publishing terms: AUTHOR: A large class of individuals (approximately three times as numerous as readers) serving a promotional function in book marketing or providing make-work for editorial interns (via @nikperring)
& Bad sex award shortlist pits Philip Roth against stiff competition (Nick Cave, Banville, Richard Milward)
& Problem: 163 lifetimes worth of book titles to ...
Hearing Set for Google Settlement, Nabokov Covers Redesigned, and More
Poets & Writers - From Inspiration to Publication —
... is holding an online seminar on December 10 to bring rightsholders up to speed on the revised book-scanning settlement and its new deadlines. The nominees for this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction award—which will be presented on November 30 by Britain’s Literary Review —include Nick Cave, Jonathan Littell, and Pulitzer-winner Philip Roth ( Guardian ). FiledBy, a directory of author Web sites, has incorporated document-sharing technology from online publishing platform Scribd ( ...
Can Nick Cave rival Bad Sex Award favorite Philip Roth?
Jacket Copy —
... Not all the finalists feel that way. Nick Cave's "The Death of Bunny Munro" follows the sexual misadventures of traveling salesman Bunny. "Frankly, we would have been offended if he wasn't shortlisted," his British publisher Canongate told the Guardian. Maybe that's because Cave deliberately rendered a crude, sexually obsessed character. "I think it’s a hard look at a particular aspect of masculinity," ...
Weeklings: Blyton, Palin, F-Bombs, and Bad Sex
Book Blog - Likely Stories, by Keir Graff - Booklist Online —
... According to the Guardian (”Bad sex award shortlist pits Philip Roth against stiff competition,” by Alison Flood): ...
Bookstorm — ... I was delighted to see Philip Roth on the shortlist for this year's Bad Sex Award (the only literary prize worth caring about), but a part of me would like to see Jonathan Littell win. I never finished The Kindly Ones, and Littell's nomination makes me feel slightly vindicated: his book was so sloppy that I wondered if his publisher ever bothered to send the manuscript to an editor. ...
Bookmarks: Coolio cooks, Anne of Green Gables tweets, and more
Quill & Quire —
... Dreyfuss as Moses, Luke Perry as Judas Iscariot, and — who else? — James Caviezel reprising his role as Jesus Christ. The L.A. Times Jacket Copy reports the audio-book is described as a “verbal cinema” complete with a musical score and sound effects
You can now be a follower, or “kindred spirit,” of Canada’s favourite redhead. Anne of Green Gables is using Twitter
We’re well aware how prevalent bad sex is in fiction … so how about awards for good sex? ...
The Bad Sex Award
Red Room - Where the Writers Are —
... ’s Bad Sex Award shortlist has been announced. As The Guardian reports, among the dubious honorees this year are Paul Theroux (for A Dead Hand), Philip Roth (for The Humbling), and Sanjida O’Connell (for The Naked Name of Love). Previous winners include Tom Wolfe, Rachel Johnson, and Sebastian Faulks — and last year, John Updike received a lifetime achievement prize after four consecutive nominations (wow). The Literary Review’s Jonathan Beckman told the Guardian that this year’s shortlist is “very strong, with a good mix of well-known writers and others who are less ...
Silliman's Blog — ... § Douglas Skrief, stone poet § Michael Longley in Calcutta § Can Nick Cave beat the modern Bulwer-Lytton for the “bad sex” award? (It’s not just the sex that’s bad in The Humbling) The bad sex “shortlist” So where is the good sex? ...
Sex and Love and Leaving
The Outfit: A Collective of Chicago Crime Writers —
... sex. Writing about it, to be more precise. We've all heard Elmore Leonard's dictum about leaving out the stuff the reader skips over way too many times--but I almost always skip sex scenes, as a reader. Yes, he/she took off her/his clothes. They got naked, they got into bed/backseat of car/faux-skin rug in front of fire/billiard table, and heaved about like demented hippopotami for a bit and then-can we get back to the story? I also skip sex scenes as a writer. Every year, when the Bad Sex in Fiction Award is announced, I thank my writing muse for steering me clear of any ...
