I thought, as an erotica writer, I’d write some short critical reflections of the nominated passages for each of this year’s Bad Sex Award entries. I’m looking at language, veracity, honesty and craft, as well as erotic potential where relevant. If you write fiction with erotic content that is meant to arouse readers, I challenge … Continue Reading
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The nominees, if you please: Bad Sex Awards 2013 or When did literariness become synonymous with sterile?
It has occurred to me that why the judges of the Bad Sex Awards find it so easy to pick nominees is partly based on its exclusions: The purpose of the prize is stated as to “draw attention to the crude, badly written, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern … Continue Reading
Madness, Shame and the Reason We Write on the Edge
Today I ran across an artifact. It’s a letter written in 1985, by Charles Bukowski to the journalist Hans van den Broek, responding to the news that his book, ‘Tales of Ordinary Madness’ had been banned from a public library. He wrote: “Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities … Continue Reading
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