Real Estate Has Never Been Sexier

By Nichole LeFebvre    |   Friday, May 22, 2015  Off the Shelf In a recent meeting, my boss, literary agent Molly Friedrich, told a client she needed to write a sex scene. The novel in question buzzed with an unrequited energy, but we wanted the romantic payoff, too.  The author blushed and said she couldn’t, too worried she’d end up on Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction award list. "Read some D. H. Lawrence,” I said. “Or Elena Ferrante. Anaïs Nin.” “You know who can write a damn good sex scene?” Molly said. “Jane Smiley. Go read Good Faith. Then start writing.”... READ MORE