Dog Years: A MemoirA Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year Winner of the Israel Fishman Stonewall Book Award for Nonfiction "Tender and amusing. . . . Doty brilliantly captures the qualities that make dogs endearing." The New Yorker When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he brings home Beau, a large, malnourished golden retriever in need of loving care. Joining Arden, the black retriever, to complete their family, Beau

in the process pioneering the underground comic book industry

anticipating the polarization and resurgent extremism we know today

and the path Robert Crumb blazed through it all

where he took portraits of inmates that he later shared with their friends and families

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I assumed she’d gone to make coffee

there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beaton

Patrick’s exacting eye for the fractured beauty in our shared chaos captured it all

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knowledge—are these facts of life or simply parts of speech

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Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells