JONATHAN LETHEM is the author of almost twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including The Ecstasy of Influence, The Fortress of Solitude, Chronic City, and Motherless Brooklyn, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.
A. J. LIEBLING (1904–1963) joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1935. During World War II he was a correspondent in Europe and Africa. After the war he wrote the magazine’s “Wayward Press” column for many years. His other subjects included boxing, food, and horse racing.
ELIZABETH MACKLIN is the author of two poetry collections, A Woman Kneeling in the Big City and You’ve Just Been Told, and is the translator of the Basque writer Kirmen Uribe’s Meanwhile Take My Hand.
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ARTHUR MILLER (1915–2005) was one of the most celebrated American playwrights of the twentieth century. His works include All My Sons, The Crucible, and Death of a Salesman, which won a Pulitzer Prize.
OGDEN NASH (1902–1971) published his first poem in The New Yorker in 1930, and they continued to appear in the magazine for the rest of his life. His books include I’m a Stranger Here Myself, Bed Riddance, and Good Intentions.
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CATHLEEN SCHINE is the author of several novels, including Rameau’s Niece, The Love Letter, She Is Me, The New Yorkers, and The Three Weissmanns of Westport.
ANNE SEXTON (1928–1974) was an American poet. Her books include To Bedlam and Part Way Back, The Awful Rowing Toward God, and Live or Die, which won a Pulitzer Prize.
JIM SHEPARD is a novelist and short story writer. His collection Like You’d Understand, Anyway won the Story Prize and was nominated for the National Book Award. His other books include Project X and You Think That’s Bad.
CHARLES SIMIC is a poet, essayist, and translator and served as the United States poet laureate in 2007–2008. His books include My Noiseless Entourage, That Little Something, and Master of Disguises.
DAVE SMITH is an American poet, novelist, and critic whose books include Hunting Men, The Wick of Memory, Hawks on Wires, and Little Boats, Unsalvaged. He is the co-editor of Afield: American Writers on Bird Dogs.
RUTH STONE (1915–2011) was the author of many books of poetry, including In the Dark, Ordinary Words, and What Love Comes To.
MARK STRAND was the United States poet laureate in 1990–1991. His books include Blizzard of One, Man and Camel, and Almost Invisible.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA (1923–2012) was a Polish poet and the winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Her books include Here, People on a Bridge, and View with a Grain of Sand.
DOROTHEA TANNING (1910–2012) was an American artist and writer. Her books include Between Lives, A Table of Content, and Coming to That.
JAMES TATE is an American poet. His collection Worshipful Company of Fletchers won a National Book Award and his Selected Poems won a Pulitzer Prize.
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MONA VAN DUYN (1921–2004) was an American poet. Her books include To See, to Take, which won a National Book Award, and Near Changes, which won a Pulitzer Prize. She was the United States poet laureate in 1992–1993.
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ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
tp: James Thurber, copyright © 1964 by Rosemary A. Thurber. Reprinted by arrangement with Rosemary A. Thurber and The Barbara Hogenson Agency. All rights reserved.
col1.1: John Siskin
frw.1: Previously unpublished James Thurber illustration “Thurber Dog with Butterfly for Nora” copyright © 1937. Reprinted by arrangement with Rosemary A. Thurber and The Barbara Hogenson Agency. All rights reserved. “Thurber Dog with Butterfly for Nora” is courtesy of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at the Ohio State University Libraries and was a gift of Nora Sayre.
1.1: James Thurber
1.2: James Thurber
1.3: Photograph of E. B. White and Katharine White (and Minnie), reprinted courtesy of the Estate of E. B. White.
2.1: Jules Feiffer
3.1: Mark Ulriksen
3.2: Edward Sorel
4.1: Platon
4.2: Mary Petty
5.1: Zohar Lazar
5.2: Mary Petty
5.3: Handwritten draft of “Great Dog Poem No. 2” by Mark Strand, reprinted courtesy of the author and The Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
6.1: Mark Ulriksen
7.1: James Thurber
7.2: Anatol Kovarsky
8.1: Jules Feiffer
9.1: Martin Schoeller
9.2: Landon Nordeman
10.1: John Sann
11.1: Jules Feiffer
11.2: Mark Ulriksen
12.1: Typescript drafts of “Tennis Ball” by Donald Hall reproduced courtesy of the author and the Milne Special Collections, University of New Hampshire Library.
13.1: Typescript of “Chablis” by Donald Barthelme, Donald Barthelme Literary Papers, Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. Copyright © 1983 by Donald Barthelme (The Wylie Agency LLC).
14.1: Hermina Selz
14.2: Helene E. Hokinson
14.3: Ana Juan
p03.1: Valerie Shaff
15.1: James Thurber
16.1: Getty Images, Inc.
16.2: Getty Images, Inc.
17.1: Peter Arno
18.1: Splash News
18.2: Mark Ulriksen
19.1: Constantin Alajalov
20.1: Elliott
Erwitt/Magnum Photos
20.2: Manuscript and typescript drafts of “The Unruly Thoughts of the Dog Trainer’s Lover” by Elizabeth Macklin reproduced courtesy of the author.
20.3: Ward Schumaker
20.4: Typescript of “Monologue of a Dog Ensnared in History” by Wislawa Szymborska reproduced courtesy of the the Wislawa Szymborska Foundation.
21.1: William Wegman, Ray Cat (1978)
21.2: Galley page of “Dogology” by T. Coraghessan Boyle
21.3: Eric Drooker
21.4: Mark Ulriksen
22.1: Manuscript page from “Dog Race” by Roald Dahl © RDNL. Courtesy of The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre.
22.2: Barry Blitt
23.1: Illustration by James Thurber of “The Departure of Emma Inch” from The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze. Copyright © 1935 by Rosemary A. Thurber. Reprinted by arrangement with Rosemary A. Thurber and The Barbara Hogenson Agency. All rights reserved.
24.1: Landon Nordeman
24.2: William Steig
25.1: Photograph by Jacques Henri Lartigue © Ministère de la Culture—France/A.A.J.H.L.
25.2: Peter de Sève
26.3: John Cuneo
27.1: Typescript pages from “The Dog” by Roddy Doyle reprinted courtesy of the author and the National Library of Ireland.
27.3: Maira Kalman
28.1: Typescript of “Line and Tree” by A. J. Liebling reproduced courtesy of the Estate of A. J. Liebling and the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. Copyright © 1949 by A. J. Liebling (The Wylie Agency LLC).
29.1: Peter Arno
34.1: James Thurber
34.2, 34.3: James Thurber postcard to Harold Ross reproduced courtesy of Rosemary A. Thurber and New Yorker Records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
Cartoons by Charles Addams (3.3, 21.5, 24.3), Peter Arno (33.5), Charles Barsotti (5.4, 6.2, 13.2, 27.5, 29.2, 33.2), Harry Bliss (11.3, 21.6), George Booth (col2.2, 6.3, 11.4, 33.2), David Borchart (18.3), Roz Chast (10.2, 30.1), Tom Cheney (16.3), Leo Cullum (11.5, 14.4, 18.4, 18.5, 22.3, 31.2), Chon Day (25.3), Robert Day (3.4), Edward Frascino (4.3), Alex Gregory (9.3, 25.5, 31.1), J. B. Handelsman (26.1), Pete Holmes (16.4), Bruce Eric Kaplan (11.6, 19.2, 33.3), Anatol Kovarsky (5.5), Arnie Levin (2.2, 20.5), Eric Lewis (22.4), Lee Lorenz (21.7, 29.3), Robert Mankoff (25.3), Michael Maslin (24.4), Warren Miller (22.5), Paul Noth (33.1), John O’Brien (22.6), Mischa Richter (34.4), Victoria Roberts (27.4), Al Ross (20.6), Danny Shanahan (4.4, 9.4, 14.5, 22.7, 25.4, 26.1, 26.4, 30.2), Bernard Schoenbaum (28.3), David Sipress (28.2), Otto Soglow (3.5), Saul Steinberg (2.3, 14.6), Peter Steiner (12.2, 22.9), Mick Stevens (toc.1), James Thurber (7.3, 15.2, 23.2), Tom Toro (26.2), Mike Twohy (14.7, 27.2), Robert Weber (2.4–2.5, 28.4), Bill Woodman (22.8), Jack Ziegler (18.6, 22.9)
Spot art by Tom Bachtell, Charles Barsotti, Abe Birnbaum, George Booth, Devera Ehrenberg, Ian Falconer, Lee Lorenz, Daniel Maja, Mariscal, Eugene Mihaesco, Emmanuel Pierre, Ronald Searle, Otto Soglow, Ralph Steadman, James Thurber, Philippe Weisbecker.
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