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Bad Sex in Fiction

By Lydia Kiesling posted at 10:49 pm on November 20, 2009 0

Bad sex in fiction! Here are your excerpts from Literary Review‘s annual contest.

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Lydia Kiesling is a staff writer for The Millions. She is in graduate school at the University of Chicago and was the recipient of the 2010 Charm Quark Award in the 2010 3 Quarks Daily Arts and Literature Prize.

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