This year’s winner of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award will make your skin crawl

And the winner is… LA LA LAND! Oh wait…

The Literary Review announced the winner of the 25th annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award at what it described as “a lavish ceremony” on Thursday evening.

The Bad Sex in Fiction award’s purpose is “to draw attention to poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in modern fiction.” The 2017 winner was American author Christopher Bollen for his book The Destroyers. The judges gave him the award based on a sex scene between the book’s protagonist Ian and his former girlfriend. Read more…

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