The Corner

Re: The Day My Butt Went Psycho

Proust it ain’t, I’ll grant you, but it went over big with my son.

Lit-Crit note: Originally an Australian production, the title was THE DAY

MY BUM WENT PSYCHO… but the publishers thought U.S. kids wouldn’t know

what was meant.

(Reader spot quiz: If Proust *had* written this book, what would he have

called it?)

John Derbyshire — Mr. Derbyshire is a former contributing editor of National Review.
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