Good Dog: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Loyalty

Overview

Garden & Gun magazine’s aptly named Good Dog column is one of the publication’s most popular features. Now editor in chief David DiBenedetto and the editors of Garden & Gun have gathered their favorite essays as well as original pieces for this must-read collection of dog ownership, companionship, and kinship. 

By turns humorous, inspirational, and poignant, Good Dog offers beautifully crafted stories from such notable writers as P. J. O’Rourke, Jon Meacham, and Roy...

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Good Dog: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Loyalty

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Overview

Garden & Gun magazine’s aptly named Good Dog column is one of the publication’s most popular features. Now editor in chief David DiBenedetto and the editors of Garden & Gun have gathered their favorite essays as well as original pieces for this must-read collection of dog ownership, companionship, and kinship. 

By turns humorous, inspirational, and poignant, Good Dog offers beautifully crafted stories from such notable writers as P. J. O’Rourke, Jon Meacham, and Roy Blount, Jr. From the troublemakers who can’t be fenced in to the lifelong companions who never leave our sides, this one-of-a-kind anthology showcases man’s best friend through all of his most endearing (and maddening) attributes.

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Of the making of real-life dog stories, there is mercifully no end. Several of the most entertaining of these originally appeared in Garden & Gun magazine popular "Good Dog" feature and are now the basis of this endearing 336-page anthology. Part of the appeal of this collection's tail-wagging wonders is their range; from historian Jon Meacham's description of his Springer puppy's Shakespearean streak to P.J. O'Rourke markedly more cynical experiment of applying dog-training techniques to raising children. All in all, a delightful, giftable package.

Kirkus Reviews
2014-08-27
A sparkling collection of 51 dog stories that have regularly appeared in the eponymous columns of Garden & Gun since its launch in 2007. DiBenedetto (On the Run: An Angler's Journey Down the Striper Coast, 2003), the magazine's editor in chief, explains the rationale behind the selections chosen by the editors. "[Our] Holy Trinity is bourbon, dogs, and barbecue, but dogs truly reign supreme," he jokes. These are not your stereotypical lap dogs. In "Hurricane Muffin," Katie Crouch writes, "[e]ven when he was a puppy, Muffin our cairn terrier, was yappy and mean, calculating and chewy." Nonetheless, he showed his mettle when he herded the family to the only safe spot in their house during a fierce hurricane. Logan Ward describes how his first dog was a toy poodle, "a fur ball the color of a Hershey's Kiss and only slightly bigger," whom he named Tom—Thomas Thumb Ward. Despite his diminutive size, Tom became an avid bird dog. In "Training Days," DiBenedetto gives an amusing account of a yellow Labrador who only "retrieved one duck in his gundog career." His claim to fame was that, after being neutered, he would run away, heading back to the vet's office: "Well, we liked to say he was looking for his balls." The role of a companion dog is a recurrent theme. In "A Marriage for the Dogs," Jill McCorkle discusses the problem of modern blended families. "When my husband and I got married," she writes, "we were as concerned about merging our dogs as we were our children." On a different note, Jack Hitt uses a personal anecdote to suggest that veterinary medicine can become prohibitively expensive and is not necessarily required. Other contributors include Ace Atkins, Rick Bragg, Roy Blount Jr., Jon Meacham and Julia Reed. Bird lovers may blanch at feather-in-the-mouth hunting tales, but this selection of vignettes is varied, entertaining and frequently heartwarming.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780062242358
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 10/21/2014
  • Pages: 336
  • Sales rank: 324
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.25 (h) x 1.09 (d)

Meet the Author

Garden & Gun is a national magazine that covers the best of the South, including its sporting culture, food, music, art, and literature, and its ­people and their ideas. The magazine has won numerous awards for journalism, design, and overall excellence. Garden & Gun was launched in the spring of 2007 and is headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina.

David DiBenedetto is the editor in chief of Garden & Gun magazine. He is the author of On the Run: An Angler’s Journey Down the Striper Coast and the editor of the New York Times bestselling The Southerner’s Handbook. He grew up in Savannah, Georgia, and now resides in Charleston, South Carolina, with his wife, Jenny; their son, Sam; and their Boykin spaniel, Pritchard.

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