The Literary Review’s Bad Sex short list has been announced. The awards honor an “unconvincing, perfunctory, embarrassing or redundant sex scene in an otherwise sound literary novel”. The list inlcudes Irvine Welsh, David Mitchell, Mark Haddon, Thomas Pynchon, et al. (see past winners here).

The Guardian has reviewed Dirty Blonde, Courtney Love’s autobiography/diary. Like the NYT, they liked it. They didn’t include it in their list of notable rock biographies of 2006, but they like it.

An Update: No sooner was this posted than the award was handed to Iain Holligshead who reflects on the dubious honor in The Telegraph.