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The shortlist for the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title includes

The shortlist for the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title includes "leather-daddy bounty hunters."

By James Folta | November 18, 2024

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The Onion has bought InfoWars. (And no, this isn't a joke.)

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All the books that (probably) radicalized Lindsay Weir.

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