Summary: A collection of anecdotes, essays, fiction pieces, and illustrations-- all about dogs, and all from the pages of New Yorker magazine. From Charles Addams to E.B. White, this book is a gift to dog lovers everywhere.
Booklist Reviews
The title says it all. It's from the New Yorker! It's about dogs! It has a foreward by hot author Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers, 2008)! And, of course, it has wonderful cartoons! This marvelous collection of essays, stories, short humor pieces, drawings, poems—and cartoons—could not have come from any other source but the New Yorker. What other publication has enough good stuff in the vaults to begin each section ("Good Dogs," "Bad Dogs," "Top Dogs," and "Underdogs") with a piece by James Thurber? Also included are such tidbits as a Roald Dahl story about an attempted fiddle at a greyhound race; Susan Orlean on Rin Tin Tin; Ogden Nash's ode "For a Good Dog"; a piece on dog whisperer Cesar Millan by Gladwell; an Arthur Miller coming-of-age story involving sex and a puppy; and Anne Sexton's poem on having to love her beloved's old dog. Scattered throughout are doggy magazine covers, artwork, photographs, and the iconic cartoons. A must-have. Copyright 2012 Booklist Reviews.
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