All book titles should be like 'Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?' | Emma Brockes

It’s bitchy, fun and avoids the worst of the publishing industry’s most recent clichesWe are at what seems like a low point in the history of book titles. Good titles are hard to find, but they make all the difference. Take Timothy Caulfield’s new book Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? On the strength of the jacket blurb, I would not be overly interested in reading it. But that title makes me want to grab it with both hands. I can’t say that about many books these days.There are those that try too hard; Dave Eggers’ willfully obscure What Is The What, for example, or Joshua Ferris’ bleedingly post-modern Then We Came To The End. (I know it’s the opening line from Don DeLillo’s Americana, but still). Others are overly long and overly self-conscious, for which Kiran Desai has, for the last 15 years, held the title with her novel The Hullabaloo In The Guava Orchard. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

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