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Modern authors feel 'commercial obligation' to write about sex, Julian Barnes says - Telegraph

Fri, 22/03/2013 - 4:42pm — Chris Holifield

25 March 2013

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/9908591/Modern-authors-feel-co...

The author said his contemporaries struggled with the problem of how to write about the intimate, striking the difficult balance of how much to explain, imply or omit.

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