#christopher bollen

[yourdailyqueer]

Christopher Bollen

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 26 November 1975

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Writer, journalist

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Inside an Anthology: Crime Ink: Iconic ed. by John Copenhaver and Salem West

Today on the site I’m delighted to be offering a peek inside the anthology Crime Ink: Iconic ed. by John Copenhaver and Salem West, a collection of crime fiction inspired by queer icons. How awesome does that sound?? Here’s the gist: Crime Ink: Iconic is a bold and electrifying anthology that brings together a powerhouse lineup of some of the most compelling voices in queer mystery writing today.…

Inside an Anthology: Crime Ink: Iconic ed. by John Copenhaver and Salem West

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Daily Book – A Beautiful Crime

From the author of The Destroyers comes another delicious literary thriller (People)–a twisty story of deception, set in contemporary Venice

When Nick Brink and his boyfriend Clay Guillory meet up on the Grand Canal in Venice, they have a plan in mind–and it doesn’t involve a vacation. Nick and Clay are running away from their turbulent lives in New York City, each desperate for a happier, freer future someplace else. Their method of escape? Selling a collection of counterfeit antiques to a brash, unsuspecting American living out his retirement years in a grand palazzo. With Clay’s smarts and Nick’s charm, their scheme is sure to succeed.

As it turns out, tricking a millionaire out of money isn’t as easy as it seems, especially when Clay and Nick let greed get the best of them. As Nick falls under the spell of the city’s decrepit magic, Clay comes to terms with personal loss and the price of letting go of the past. Their future awaits, but it is built on disastrous deceits, and more than one life stands in the way of their dreams.

[universitybookstore]

Con men? Venice? Counterfeit antiques and a gay couple on the run? Yes, yes, and oh, hell yes. New from Harper and novelist Christopher Bollen, A Beautiful Crime. (Read the starred review in PW here.)

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American novelist Christopher Bollen has been awarded this year's "Bad Sex in Fiction" award, in recognition of a sex scene from his novel The Destroyers that read in part: "The skin along her arms and shoulders are different shades of tan like water stains in a bathtub."

The following sentence is a little spicy for NPR, but suffice to say that the narrator compares his own anatomy to a "billiard rack."

Those ill-advised analogies earned Bollen the dubious honor of being granted the Bad Sex in Fiction award by the Literary Review. The prize was announced on Thursday; Bollard "was unable to attend the ceremony," the Literary Review writes.

Bollen beat out stiff competition for this year's prize. Laurent Binet described a graphic action taken by a "mouth-machine"; Venetia Welby used the phrase "diabolical torso"; Wilbur Smith used blurred watercolors as a metaphor for sexual congress.

But Bollen's beachside scene won out.

'Bad Sex In Fiction' Award Goes To Novelist Who Compared Skin To Stained Bathtub

Photo: Robert Easton/Flickr

[nprbooks]

American novelist Christopher Bollen has been awarded this year's "Bad Sex in Fiction" award, in recognition of a sex scene from his novel The Destroyers that read in part: "The skin along her arms and shoulders are different shades of tan like water stains in a bathtub."

The following sentence is a little spicy for NPR, but suffice to say that the narrator compares his own anatomy to a "billiard rack."

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-- Petra

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Christopher Bollen

Orient, Harper, 2015 VS Orient, Bollati Boringhieri, 2018

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"It made me a braver writer and probably a contemporary one. It turned the quill into a ballpoint pen." A PEN Ten interview with Christopher Bollen, author of THE DESTROYERS (@harpercollins), on the censorship of art, Graham Greene, and writing for the first time about being with a man.