How do you describe novels written by a Fellow of All Souls, laced with extreme post-modern self-consciousness and lavish with cultural references, but revolving almost entirely around graphic permutations of the sexual act? As a genre, it can surely only be called clever-dick-lit.
This is Adam Thirlwell’s second foray into this exclusive terrain.
Disagree with half of it, enjoy reading all of it
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