Heaven knows, he must be miserable now. In December The Literary Review gave the 23th annual Bad Sex In Fiction Award to Morrissey – the former Smiths lead singer who spent a large chunk of his career avowing he was celibate and/or asexual – who came first beating off stiff competition with his novel List of the Lost. The judges were seduced by lines like, ‘Eliza and Ezra rolled together into one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation, shouting and screaming.’
Also shortlisted were George Pelecanos, Erica Jong, Joshua Cohen and Richard Bausch.