Since it gets you guys going...
May. 11th, 2005 09:15 pmThere is something entitled The Henry Miller Award, where you can vote for this month's best literary sex scene (yes it's that Henry). Here's some backstory, provided by Martha O'Connor, author of one of the nominees (The Bitch Posse):
(Thanks to Maud Newton, for letting me nick the pun of her post.)
(And since I'm talking about pun: I've only skimmed through the scenes, but they seem way better than the one I wrote yesterday. I don't think that would ever get nominated for a Henry Miller Award.)
When I announced the news on my website, I knew my mom would read it, and then read it again, and again, hoping desperately that she'd missed something and that I'd really been nominated for the Arthur Miller Award. "Nope, sorry, Mom," I had to tell her, "it's Henry. Henry. Yeah, that Henry."
Soon after, a friend of mine emailed and asked which scene was nominated. "I assume," she said, having read the first three chapters, "it's your first chapter? That's your big sex scene, right?"
"Um, well," I said, "I don't really know which scene they're using..."
"You don't know which scene it was? How many are there, for God's sake?"
(Thanks to Maud Newton, for letting me nick the pun of her post.)
(And since I'm talking about pun: I've only skimmed through the scenes, but they seem way better than the one I wrote yesterday. I don't think that would ever get nominated for a Henry Miller Award.)