Susannah Hunnewell interviewed French author Michel Houellebecq on the art of fiction. The entire conversation is worth reading. On his controversial sex scenes:
What shocked people was that I depicted sexual failure. I wrote about sexuality in a nonglorifying way. Most of all I described a basic reality: a person filled with sexual desire who can’t satisfy it. That’s what people don’t like to hear about.
2006-2011 archives for The Daily Dish, featuring Andrew Sullivan