Brit nails the Bad Sex in Fiction Award
'A commotion of grunts'
By JILL LAWLESS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON -- First-time author Iain Hollingshead scooped a dubious literary honor Wednesday, winning the Bad Sex in Fiction Award for his novel, "Twenty Something."
Hollingshead beat established writers including Booker Prize nominee David Mitchell, best-seller Mark Haddon and literary maverick Thomas Pynchon to the prize, which aims to skewer "the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel."
Judges were moved by Hollingshead's evocation of "a commotion of grunts and squeaks, flashing unconnected images and explosions of a million little particles." His description of "bulging trousers" sealed the win, the judges said.
Read complete story.
I have a hard time with sex scenes in fiction myself. In a screenplay you can just write "they make love" and pass the buck to the director ha ha.
No comments:
Post a Comment