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<title>Christos Tsiolkas - GalleyCat</title>
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<title>Stephen King &amp; Haruki Murakami on Bad Sex in Lit List</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-42762" title="frontcover" src="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/files/2011/11/frontcover.jpg" alt="" width="190" height="253" />The shortlist for the <a href="http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/index.php" target="_blank"><em>Literary Review</em></a>&#8216;s annual Bad Sex in Literature Award has been released.</p>
<p>You can read the complete shortlist below&#8211;it includes <strong>Lee Child</strong>, <strong>Haruki Murakami</strong> and <strong>James Frey</strong>. This year the <em>Literary Review</em> has been active on Twitter, leading the <a title="#badsexaward" rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search?q=%23badsexaward">Bad Sex Award</a> hashtag on Twitter. <strong></strong><strong>Rowan Somerville</strong> <a title="Rowan Somerville Wins Bad Sex Award" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/rowan-somerville-wins-bad-sex-award_b17946">won the award</a> last year.<a title="Rowan Somerville Wins Bad Sex Award" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/rowan-somerville-wins-bad-sex-award_b17946"><br />
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<p><em>Literary Review</em> has been tweeting bad sex passages online, including this scene from King&#8217;s <em>11-22-63</em>: &#8220;Her head bonked on the door. &#8216;Ouch,&#8217; I said. &#8216;Are you all right?&#8217;&#8221; (Via <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/11/22/bad-sex-awards-literary-review_n_1107149.html" target="_blank">Huffington Post</a>)</p>
<p> <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/stephen-king-haruki-murakami-top-bad-sex-in-literature-shortlist_b42761#more-42761" class="more-link">continued&#8230;</a></p>
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		<category><![CDATA[Haruki Murakami]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jean M Auel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lee Child]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Péter Nádas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rowan Somerville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sebastian Barry]]></category>
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