Irish author wins ‘Bad Sex in Fiction’ award

Finally, an award for writing we can get behind — and under, and on top of, and on the kitchen counter. Irish based author Rowan Sommerville took the annual Bad Sex in Fiction award, presented by Britain’s Literary Review, for his novel The Shape of Her .  The Telegraph reported that judges for the prize, which honors the crudest of sexually vulgar excerpts in modern literature, said they were particularly taken by Sommerville’s sentence, “Like a lepidopterist mounting a toug…

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