July 19, 2005

Good sex awards announced . . .

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While the UK has its “Bad Sex in Literature award for the worst sex scenes in a given year’s fiction, an award sponsored by the Literary Review, the US now has an award for “the best literary sex scene,” to be sponsored by online magazine Nerve.com. According to a press release, the Henry Miller Awards will start with five nominated passages from the editors each month for readers to vote on. At year’s end, finalists will vie for a readers’ choice award, and a grand prize to be chosen by celebrity judges, and worth $1,934 — “commemorating the publication date of Tropic of Cancer.”

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.

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