11.28.2008

You win some and you lose some and you win some


LONDON---- It's not quite the Nobel Prize, but John Updike has a new literary accolade: laureate of bad sex.



Updike, who has a long and graphic history of detailing coupling on the page, won a lifetime achievement award Tuesday from judges of Britain's Bad Sex in Fiction Prize, which celebrates crude, tasteless or ridiculous sexual passages in modern literature.

[From Updike wins Bad Sex in fiction prize :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Books]


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