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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword: Malcolm Gladwell
Good Dogs
Snapshot of a Dog: James Thurber
Dog Around the Block: E. B. White
Dog Story: Adam Gopnik
For A Good Dog: Ogden Nash
Dog Heaven: Stephanie Vaughn
Bereavement: Kevin Young
Beware of the Dogs: Burkhard Bilger
The Watcher: Ruth Stone
Dog Run Moon: Callan Wink
Great Dog Poem No. 2: Mark Strand
Dog Days: Marjorie Garber
Wisdom Tinged With Joy: Dorothea Tanning
Dog Language: Ian Frazier
Bad Dogs
From “The Pet Department”: James Thurber
Dog Trouble: Cathleen Schine
Peacock: Alexandra Fuller
What the Dog Saw: Malcolm Gladwell
Bulldog: Arthur Miller
Don’t Do That: Stephen Dunn
Scooped: Lauren Collins
Troublemakers: Malcolm Gladwell
Walking the Dog:: A Diatribe Mona Van Duyn
From Metamorphoses: John Cheever
Worse than his Bite: Eric Konigsberg
Tennis Ball: Donald Hall
Man Blames Dog: Ben Mcgrath
Chablis: Donald Barthelme
Dog: Virginia Woods Bellamy
Down the Leash: Angelica Gibbs
Top Dogs
A Preface to Dogs: James Thurber
The Dog Star: Susan Orlean
The Owner of Ben Finney: Alexander Woollcott
His Life as A Dog: Rebecca Mead
Your Face on the Dog’s Neck: Anne Sexton
Rich Bitch: Jeffrey Toobin
Small-Town Life: George W. S. Trow
Tallyho!: E. J. Kahn, Jr.
Show Dog: Susan Orlean
The Unruly Thoughts of the Dog Trainer’s Lover: Elizabeth Macklin
Real Dogs: Richard Cohen
La Forza del Alpo: Roger Angell
Monologue of a Dog Ensnared in History: Wislawa Szymborska
Scratch and Sniff: Ian Frazier
Dogology: T. Coraghessan Boyle
Dogtown: Ben Mcgrath
Fanciers: George W. S. Trow
Dog Race: Roald Dahl
Under Dogs
The Departure of Emma Inch: James Thurber
Lost Dog: Susan Orlean
Tapka: David Bezmozgis
The Promotion: James Tate
Pet Scan: Jerome Groopman
The Dog: Roddy Doyle
Line and Tree: A. J. Liebling
The Door on West Tenth Street: Maeve Brennan
Red Dog: Dave Smith
Obedience: Joan Acocella
Dog on a Chain: Charles Simic
Reach for the Sky: Jim Shepard
Shaggy-Dog Story: Kate Julian
Deaths of Distant Friends: John Updike
“Das Mitbringen von Hunden Ist Polizeilich Verboten”: David Daiches
V.I.P. Treatment: Ben Mcgrath
The American Dog in Crisis: Calvin Tomkins
Ava’s Apartment: Jonathan Lethem
A Note on Thurber’s Dogs: Adam Gopnik
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Illustration Credits
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