I don't know if this article's been mentioned: Stiff competition on Bad Sex shortlist http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1959798,00.html "A more amusing entry is provided by Thomas Pynchon, from his eagerly awaited new novel Against the Day. Suffice to say it involves a spaniel called Mouffette, a curious man called Reef and the final line, "Reader, she bit him". "