The Other Literary Review
Sometimes we get confused with the UK publication, The Literary Review. It would be a nice thing if it somehow became a cross promotion and all those hungry readers out there looking for both naughty limericks and scintillating new poetry could find the two most important and urge satisfying magazines with a single Google search. Alas. The other Literary Review is big news today, as they just announced the winner of their annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award,Rowan Somerville for his The Shape of Hereand we still are not basking in the reflected glow of public attention. Kudos nonetheless to our brothers in arms across the pond. We’ll soldier on in the shadows!
Meantime, here’s one of the misfired salacious sentences that earned Mr. Somerville the award: “Like a lepidopterist mounting a tough-skinned insect with a too blunt pin he screwed himself into her”
And here are the other nominees for the prize:
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
Maya by Alastair Campbell
A Life Apart by Neel Mukherjee
Heartbreak by Craig Raine
Mr Peanut by Adam Ross
Literature indeed makes strange bedfellows.