I do enjoy the Bad Sex in Fiction Award. Sex is difficult to write well and you were all quick to tell us your feelings about reading about it in last year's most popular Yay or Nay!
This year's shortlist is Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods, Apples by Richard Milward, Ali Smith’s Girl Meets Boy, David Thewlis’s The Late Hector Kipling, The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer, Gary Shteyngart’s Absurdistan, Christopher Rush’s Will and The Nature of Monsters by Clare Clark.
The winner will be announced today later today, but carry on over the cut for a taster from what you can expect.
From Ali Smith's Girl Meets Boy:
“We were tangled in
each other’s arms . . . Her hand opened me. Then her hand became a wing.
Then everything about me became a wing . . . a bird that could sing Mozart.”
Clearly, I'm doing it wrong...
[via The Times]