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Bad Book Resources

 

Bad Book Lists

• The Year's Worst Books - 2006
  Jennifer Reese, Entertainment Weekly, December 22, 2006
• The Year's Worst Books - 1999
  Clarissa Cruz, Entertainment Weekly, December 24, 1999

Bad Writing Contests/Awards

• Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
  "Where WWW Means 'Wretched Writers Welcome'"
• International Imitation Hemingway Contest
• Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award

Articles, Reviews, etc.

• Urinating man line wins bad writing award
  August 1, 2007
• Bad Writing
  by D.G.Meyers, Texas A&M University
• When Bad Writing Happens to Good Sex
  New York Times, January 11, 1998
• Why Not the Worst?
  Joe Queenan, New York Times, May 6, 2007
  "Bad books are an essential weapon in the struggle against the tyranny of good taste."
• Turning Bad Books Into Big Bucks
  Jim Milliot, Publishers Weekly, August 6, 2007
• OJ Simpson "Confession" To Be Re-Shopped
  Sarah Nelson, Publishers Weekly, August 6, 2007
• Good Bad Books
  George Orwell
• When Book Reviews Go Bad: Negative reviews and how to cope
  Carol Pinchefsky, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show
• What Were They Thinking?
  Sienna Powers, January Magazine
• Atlanta Nights, by Travis Tea
  the official website

 

Quotations

"Bad books are an essential weapon in the struggle against the tyranny of good taste." -- Joe Queenan