And the winner is…

R. Emmett Tyrell hands out his Coogler award to the author of the worst book of the past year: “The Coogler.” I don’t want to spoil the suspense, but there is a local Twin Cities angle to this year’s award and Tyrell concludes: “[B]illed as a humorist, he is but a clown.” With the local angle, that description narrows the field to two.

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