If you're for bad fiction, then what are you against?
Your pal here doesn't really understand anyone's--admittedly mild, at best--interest in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, given that the intentionally bad entries rarely rise to the level of hilariously bad (which one can find in abundance at any open-mike poetry night, MFA workshop, or just about any book blurb). Nonetheless, I'll leave the judgment on this one up to you, dear reader. The winner hails from Fargo, and his entry starts like so:
As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire, highly functional yet pleasingly formed, perched prominently on top of the intake manifold, aching for experienced hands....
Shouldn't DBC Pierre have been disqualified?
Posted by:Jimmy Beck | July 28, 2005 at 10:17 AM