perhaps a librarian or 2 could make an appearance…

the Today Show kicked off a new, monthly feature of books called “Cover to Cover.”  included is Jamil Zaidi of the Elliott Bay Book Company.  from Shelf Awareness.

now this is an award i can get behind

from The New York Times:

February 25, 2008

Arts, Briefly

Book Title Search Yields Weird Works

Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

The polls are open in the annual balloting for the Diagram Prize, honoring the world’s oddest book title, Agence France-Presse reported. Conducted by The Bookseller, a British trade magazine, the vote at www.thebookseller.com asks participants to choose from six mostly nonfiction titles on the shortlist, culled from titles submitted by publishers, bookstore workers and librarians around the world. The nominees are “I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen” by Jasper McCutcheon; “How to Write a How to Write Book” by Brian Paddock; “Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues” by Catharine A. MacKinnon; “Cheese Problems Solved” edited by P. L. H. McSweeney; “If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs” by Big Boom; and “People Who Mattered in Southend and Beyond: From King Canute to Doctor Feelgood” by Dee Gordon. The winner is to be announced on March 28. The prize has been offered since 1978, when the winner was “Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice.”

 *thanks to David at CAM for passing this one along