Morrissey committed the worst writely sin—now, he’s won the Bad Sex in Fiction award
Morrissey’s debut novel finds itself in good company this week—according the BBC, the Smiths frontman joins Ben Okri, Norman Mailer, Sebastian Faulks, and John Updike as the most recent winner of the Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction prize.… Read more »
The best of the worst honored in this year’s Bad Sex Awards
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Literary Review has announced the finalists for the best literary prize around: the Bad Sex Awards. The Bad Sex Awards have taken… Read more »
Famous authors (except Martin Amis) promise immortality via charity auction
“Crowd” is the prefix of the moment. Crowdfunding. Crowdsourcing. Crowdediting. Crowded House. Which is probably because it takes less time to say than “tragedy of the commons.” All of these… Read more »
A first edition shaken, not stirred
Why do collectors pay so much for first editions of the James Bond books? In The Guardian, Rick Gekoski reports that the market for first editions by Ian Fleming occupy… Read more »