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So it's a bad sex award 4 Jonathan Littell! Check out @sarahduncan1 talking about how to write good sex on guardian blog http://bit.ly/eWMMf 12/1/2009 |
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RT @ettagirl: Where's the good sex in fiction? http://bit.ly/4yECui via @maisonneuvemag 11/24/2009 |
In the News: Favored Flannery, Wily Wylie?
The Book Bench —
Readers select Flannery O'Connor's "The Complete Stories" as their favorite National Book Award winner ever.
J. C. Penney ditches its giant biannual catalog.
Disney stops production on an adaptation of "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea" with a script co-written by Michael Chabon.
Vote for your favorite DC Comic Book Cover of all time.
Is there any good sex in fiction?
Boyd Tonkin thinks the Wylie agency ruins its deceased writers' good names.
Lauren Conrad is writing another book ...
On-the-run update
Bookninja —
... a ‘roid addict with serotonin problems. Anyway, here’s hoping she holds together for the weekend until my RL crap passes. Come on, baby, hold together…. Flannery O’Connor wins American vote Book trailers—sign of the apocalypse ? Oxford gets museum of storytelling Women and the Twilight of American culture NYPL leader steps down Something happened down south with the words “National”, “Book”, and “Awards” in it, but I’m not sure what that is Guardian seeks good sex in fiction —we got the discussion right here UK Booksellers’ ...
Friday Morning LitLinks
Author Scoop —
... Sarah Duncan reminds us, in the midst of the bad sex awards, that getting it right ain’t always easy. (Guardian Books Blog) ...
Was it Good For You?. . .
The Dewey Divas and the Dudes —
... from this year's Bad Sex Award. But I'm with this columnist who asks, where's the good sex in fiction? In the comments section, there are some suggestions. ...
Bookmarks: Coolio cooks, Anne of Green Gables tweets, and more
Quill & Quire —
... 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?
You are officially invited to attend Hogwart’s ...
The Bad Sex Award
Red Room - Where the Writers Are —
... of Nick Cave’s publisher Cannongate (The Death of Bunny Munro) told the Guardian, “Frankly we would have been offended if he wasn’t shortlisted,” and nominee Richard Milward (Ten Storey Love Song) said, “There’s so much bad sex in my book that this is a nice accolade.” Click here to read the not-so-sexy excerpts. The winner will be announced on November 30 in London. And for all you writers who are suddenly wondering how you might keep your books off this list? Visit the Guardian’s Book Blog for a post in which Sarah Duncan muses about the challenges of writing about sex — as ...
Silliman's Blog — ... 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? § Can you name the last 3 ...
