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Bookmarks: Oddest book titles, evocriticism, and more

A few links from around the Web to ease you back into work after the long weekend:

• As Britain’s Diagram Prize launches its search for the oddest book title of the last 30 years, the Guardian posts a gallery of some of the strongest contenders from the award’s ridiculous history. Highlights include Knitting with Dog Hair: Better a Sweater From a Dog You Know and Love Than From a Sheep You’ll Never Meet and Reading Toes.
• Book Business‘ first annual “50 Top Women in Publishing” list recognizes industry leaders (mainly in the U.S.) who affect and transform how publishers do business.
• Salon takes a look at “evocriticism” and examines why fiction is crucial to our survival as a species.
• Ruth Padel has been elected as the first female Oxford professor of poetry, the most important academic poetry position in the U.K. Her appointment to the role comes after a controversy last week when Nobel laureate Derek Walcott withdrew from the running after a file detailing sexual harassment claims made against him by a Harvard student in 1982 was sent anonymously to 200 Oxford academics.
• You too can achieve indie success on the Kindle (if you keep your sale price low enough)!