My Right Word (Free subscription) | yesterday
After failing for the umpteenth time to garner the Nobel Prize for Literature, Amos ('Lefty') Oz missed another first place. This time it is the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award 2009. Jonathan Littell has won the seventeenth annual Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award, for The Kindly Ones (Chatto & Windus). The prize (a plaster foot) was presented by award-winning actor Charles Dance....
Redlines and Deadlines (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
by Raelene Gorlinsky Jonathan Littell has won the seventeenth annual Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award, for The Kindly Ones . The award was created in 1993 to draw attention to the "crude, tasteless, and often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in contemporary novels, and to discourage it." The other finalist books include those by some well-known names: The...
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
It may not be the Nobel Prize, but the competition for this year’s “Bad Sex in Fiction” award is just as stiff (cringe — pun intended). Philip Roth is on the Literary Review’s shortlist, and he’s in good company — current nominees include Amos Oz, Nick Cave, and John Banville, while past candidates include such [...] Related posts: Fiction Fix: Hugo Award Nominees...
Emerging Writer (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
As in written about Bad Sex. I've personally written sex badly and written bad sex quote badly too. Here's the nominees for this year. Paul Theroux’s A Dead Hand (Hamish Hamilton) Philip Roth’s The Humbling (Jonathan Cape), Anthony Quinn’s The Rescue Man (Jonathan Cape), Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones (Chatto), Amos Oz’s Rhyming Life and Death (Chatto), Nick Cave’s...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
In August 2006, David Grossman signed, along with fellow writers Amos Oz and AB Yehoshua, a statement calling for a ceasefire in Israel's summer campaign in southern Lebanon.
the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
They've announced the contenders for the Literary Review 's popular 'Bad Sex' award -- typically: not yet at the official site , but Alison Flood has the lowdown in Bad sex award shortlist pits Philip Roth against stiff competition in The Guardian . Embarrassingly, quite a few of these books are under review at the complete review : Paul Theroux's A Dead Hand Philip Roth's The Humbling Jonathan Littell's...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
"Roth can comfort himself with the fact that a roll call of literary fiction's great and good, from Booker winner John Banville to acclaimed Israeli novelist Amos Oz, Goncourt winner Jonathan Littell and Whitbread winner Paul Theroux," are also in competition this year for the Literary Review's bad sex in fiction award....
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Acclaimed American novelist Philip Roth has been shortlisted for the Bad Sex Award, alongside fellow-literary luminaries Amos Oz and Paul Theroux.
In Your Face (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Permalink: http://inyourface.info/ArT/Theta/Universal.shtml U N I V E R S A L P A T H O L O G Y Killer Instinct Hate is a Universal Pathology, one which infects the human species especially, whereas, with other animals we are not sure what they are thinking but I think it is unlikely that you can call it hate. Killing usually accompanies an evolutionary prerequisite that the father's genes survive...
rob mclennan's blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Lesley Yalen is a poet and writer whose work has been published in Invisible Ear , Skein , Denver Quarterly , jubilat , and elsewhere. Her chapbook, This Elizabeth , was published by Minus House Press in 2007. She is a member of Agnes Fox Press , a new chapbook publishing collective that's going to knock your socks off soon, and she lives above a neurologist's office in Northampton, MA. 1 - How did...
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Yesterday, I decided to actually read the full schedule of the Conference. Leftists are praising the conference. And did you see how the J Street took an ad in the Washington Post to brag about Israeli endorsements? They were so thins, those few names. So J Street is now a key promoter of the lie that there is indeed a "peace camp" in Israel. You know what I mean? That J Street is not in...
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Based on the novel Panther in the Basement by the world renowned author, Amos Oz, Little Traitor takes place in 1947 Palestine, just a few months before Israel becomes a state.
The Contentious Centrist (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Nobel Prize for Literature Even though the Israeli author Amos Oz was the #1 favourite , it is Romanian-born German author Herta Müller who wins the Nobel Prize for Literature. Says the Guardian article : "According to the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Peter Englund, Müller's "moral momentum" means she fits the criteria for the award "perfectly". "On...
The Wonderful Adventures of SNIFF (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
I am not sure I completely understand the motivation for awarding the peace prize to Barack Obama - however much I appreciate his style and effort so far. If I were on the award committe I would probably argue for not risking devalueing the prize by more or less giving it for hoped-for future results and not past achievements. But maybe this only reveals me as the boring risk-aversive bureaucrat I...
ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature went to Herta Müller: An ethnic German born in Romania, writer Herta Müller has won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. The 56-year-old, who emigrated to Germany in 1987, has made the trials of living under Nicolae Ceaus,escu's dictatorship a focus of her work. In its citation, the Nobel committee wrote that Müller, "with the concentration of poetry...
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