Literary Review named its finalists for this year's Bad Sex in Fiction Award. The Guardian reported that on a list including Philip Roth, Amos Oz and Paul Theroux, "singer Nick Cave was picked for his second novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, about a sex-obsessed door-to-door salesman. 'Frankly we would have been offended if he wasn't shortlisted,' said Anna Frame at his publisher Canongate." The winner will be announced on November 30 at London's In & Out club. The 2009 Bad Sex Award shortlist includes:
- A Dead Hand by Paul Theroux
- The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave
- The Humbling by Philip Roth
- The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
- Rhyming Life and Death by Amos Oz
- The Infinities by John Banville
- The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn
- Love Begins in Winter by Simon Van Booy
- The Naked Name of Love by Sanjida O'Connell
- Ten Storey Love Song by Richard Milward