Wolfe: More to it than ‘Bad Sex’

Novelist Tom Wolfe admits some of the sex scenes in his new book “I Am Charlotte Simmons” are tasteless but he didn’t expect to win a prize for the worst sex in fiction.

Britain’s Literary Review announced last week that Wolfe had won the year’s most dreaded literary accolade -- the Bad Sex Award. In an interview this week, the 74-year-old author made clear that his sex scenes were meant to be more ironic than erotic.

“There’s an old saying -- ‘You can lead a whore to culture but you can’t make her sing.’ In this case, you can lead an English literary wannabe to irony but you can’t make him get it,” Wolfe said.