The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: PET004000, PET010000, HUM009000
ISBN: 9780679644767, Related ISBNs: 067964475X, 0679644768, 0812983270, 9780679644750, 9780679644767
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 416,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: Only The New Yorker could fetch such an unbelievable roster of talent on the subject of man’s best friend.

 This copious collection, beautifully illustrated, features articles, fiction, humor, poems, cartoons, cover art, drafts, and drawings from the magazine’s archives. The roster of contributors includes John Cheever, Susan Orlean, Roddy Doyle, Ian Frazier, Arthur Miller, John Updike, Roald Dahl, E. B. White, A. J. Liebling, Alexandra Fuller, Jerome Groopman, Jeffrey Toobin, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ogden Nash, Donald Barthelme, Jonathan Lethem, Mark Strand, Anne Sexton, and Cathleen Schine. Complete with a Foreword by Malcolm Gladwell and a new essay by Adam Gopnik on the immortal canines of James Thurber, this gorgeous keepsake is a gift to dog lovers everywhere from the greatest magazine in the world.
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