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Dog Culture: Writers On The Character Of Canines Paperback – October 1, 2004
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"A worthwhile treat." -Dog Fancy
"Wonderful writing about the emotional geography between dogs and people." -Jon Katz
DOG CULTURE showcases celebrated contemporary writers and the dogs in their lives. Here are best-selling authors Nicholas Dawidoff, on needing obedience school as much as his dog, and Chuck Palahniuk, on the otherworldly job of rescue dogs. Rene Steinke describes the shameful gluttony of her boyfriend's dog; Pearl Abraham writes of sneaking a dog into her life in defiance of the Chassidic community in which she was raised; and Chris Offutt reminisces about the Kentucky dog of his childhood, locked out of the house, injured with buckshot, but still deeply loved. Elissa Schappell gives us the other side of the coin in her hilarious treatise against dogs.
Like the best writing on anything, each of these pieces are both about specific dogs and about all dogs, and, most importantly, about something bigger and more essential than dogs themselves: life, and how we choose to live it. With black-and-white images of the inscrutable canines that inhabit our landscape, this book will surprise and entrance, and make even the most skeptical dog observer see the world in a new way.
- Print length208 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherLyons Press
- Publication dateOctober 1, 2004
- Dimensions5 x 0.5 x 7 inches
- ISBN-101592285384
- ISBN-13978-1592285389
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Rated three bones: "A worthwhile treat." --Dog Fancy
"Wonderful writing about the emotional geography between dogs and people." --Jon Katz
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With work by:
Pearl Abraham, Annie Bruno, T Cooper, Nicholas Dawidoff, Ken Foster, Brent Hoff, Chris Offutt, Chuck Palahniuk, Rene Steinke, Hillary Rosner, Elissa Schappell, and Terese Svoboda.
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We fed Coco what he needed to stay healthy, but he wanted more. There is something to be said for a vigorous and not too discriminating appetite. He wanted danger, sweetness, blood, strangeness, adventure, salt. Who could blame him? I came to see that part of the pleasure of having a dog is the empathic part, recognizing those sensitivities that we usually think of as human, but another pleasure is in a dog's beastliness. A dog acts like a dog, and I'll admit that I took a vicarious pleasure in watching Coco get the fish skin out of the restaurant's garbage. He was so happy with himself, his tail wagging, devoutly licking and savoring the luminous skin between his paws.
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- Publisher : Lyons Press (October 1, 2004)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 208 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1592285384
- ISBN-13 : 978-1592285389
- Item Weight : 0.423 ounces
- Dimensions : 5 x 0.5 x 7 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #9,333,770 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #5,739 in Biology of Mammals
- #35,864 in Dog Care
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About the author
Ken Foster lives in New Orleans with his dogs, Brando, Zephyr, Douglas and Bananas. His work has appeared in The Believer, McSweeney's, Bomb, The New York Times Book Review, Time Out New York, The Village Voice and other publications. A collection of his short stories, titled The Kind I'm Likely to Get, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He has also been awarded fellowships to Yaddo, the Sewanee Writers Conference, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Wesleyan Writers Conference. He has edited two anthologies--The KGB Bar Reader and Dog Culture--as well as a special issue of the Mississippi Review. His most recent books are the memoir, The Dogs Who Found Me, and the collection, Dogs I Have Met. In 2008, he founded The Sula Foundation, which promotes responsible pit bull ownership in New Orleans.
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