‘Is Superman Circumcised?’ wins Oddest Book Title Award
Recent winners of the annual Diagram Prize have included ‘Goblinproofing One’s Chicken Coop’, ‘How to Poo on a Date’ and ‘A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in Eastern Indonesian Society’. The most referenced winner has probably been 2003’s ‘The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories’. Apparently, two out of every five winners have been titles for higher education studies.
The administrator of the award had this to say about the winning title and its author:
Congratulations to Is Superman Circumcised? and its author Roy Schwartz for the heroic effort put into winning the 43rd Diagram Prize. Mr Schwartz seems smarter than Lex Luthor (and presumably less evil) as I can’t recall any author being so pleased to make the Diagram shortlist. He has been busier than Meryl Streep’s publicist during Oscar season in pushing Is Superman Circumcised? out to his fans.
All of our shortlistees would have been worthy winners but with all due respect to them, I am glad of the margin of victory, for if it was a close-run thing I would have feared a slip of the tongue if I had to talk about Is Superman Circumcised? winning by the skin of its, er, teeth.