The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing: Who Will Advance from the Erotic Eight?

Your Second Round: Chopin, Roth, Genet, Winterson, Baldwin, Stoker, Lawrence, Acker

April 1, 2016  By Literary Hub
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For the second round of The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing (the Erotic Eight, obviously), we took our era-specific division winners and crossed them over in an atemporal free-for-all of sexy lit. Match-ups are below, click through to see who won…

Chopin Roth

KATE CHOPIN VS. PHILIP ROTH

As judged by Garth Greenwell

Genet Winterson

JEAN GENET VS. JEANETTE WINTERSON

As judged by Naomi Jackson

Stoker Baldwin

BRAM STOKER VS. JAMES BALDWIN

As judged by Roxane Gay

Lawrence Acker

D.H. LAWRENCE VS. KATHY ACKER

As judged by Sarah Nicole Prickett









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