The Bookseller has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book of Title of the Year, and for the first time, all six shortlisted titles come from university presses. This December, The Bookseller will announce which title has overtaken last year’s A Dog Pissing at the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-11-05 17:53:02 UTC ]
Gregory Forth’s A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path has won the U.K.-based Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, beating out runner-up Kathryn L. Smithies’s Introducing the Medieval Ass for the honor. No, it’s not autofiction: A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path is an... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-12-01 17:25:35 UTC ]
Anthropological study of metaphor takes 2020 Diagram prize, pulling ahead of Introducing the Medieval Ass in public voteA Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path has beaten Introducing the Medieval Ass to win the Diagram prize for oddest book title of the year.Both books are academic studies, with the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-11-27 00:01:11 UTC ]
Canada triumphs for the first time at for the oddest book title of the year gong. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-26 10:13:28 UTC ]