And the prize for oddest book title of the year goes to . . .

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 extensively researched study focusing […] The post And the prize for oddest book title of the year goes to . . . first appeared on Literary Hub. Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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