When bad writing happens to good sex
Article Abstract:
The reader who submits the winning worst sex scene receives 250 British pounds. The writer whose sex scene is chosen is further embarrassed by having to make an acceptance speech, at a party where actors read the offending competing entries.
Publication Name: The New York Times Book Review
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0028-7806
Year: 1998
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Poetic justice
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The Starr report mentions 'Leaves of Grass' as a gift Bill Clinton gave to Monica Lewinsky, but refrains from quoting Whitman. The text's sexuality was controversial enough to get Whitman fired from his federal job in 1865.
Publication Name: The New York Times Book Review
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0028-7806
Year: 1998
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Rehabilitating a monster
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The rehabilitation of Sade by Michel Foucault and other liberal or deconstructionist modern critics debases literature itself. Much of Sade's 18th century work is justifiably dismissed as deranged prison fantasies.
Publication Name: The New York Times Book Review
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0028-7806
Year: 1996
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