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Jon Katz has written eleven books, six novels and five works of nonfiction. A two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award, he has written for The New York Times, GQ, The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, and Wired. He currently writes about technology, media, and culture for the Web site Slashdot.org, and is a contributing editor to public radio’s Marketplace and to Bark magazine. A member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers, he lives in northern New Jersey with his wife, Paula Span, a reporter for The Washington Post, and their college-student daughter, Emma Span. Jon Katz can be e-mailed at jonkatz3@comcast.net or jonkatz@slashdot.org.
Photograph © James Lattanzio
A Dog Year
In his popular and widely praised Running to the Mountain, Jon Katz wrote of the strength and support he found in the massive forms of his two yellow Labrador retrievers, Julius and Stanley. When the Labs were six and seven, a breeder who’d read his book contacted Katz to say she had a dog that was meant for him—a two-year-old border collie named Devon, well bred but high-strung and homeless. Katz already had a full canine complement, but instinct overruled reason, and soon thereafter he brought Devon home.A Dog Year: Twelve Months, Four Dogs, and Me is the story of how Devon and Jon—and Julius and Stanley—came to terms with each other. It shows how a man discovered a lot about himself through one dog (and then another) whose temperament seemed as different from his own as day is from night. It is a story of trust and understanding, of life and death, of continuity and change. It is by turns insightful, hilarious, and deeply moving.
Jon Katz's Summer Reading List
21 Dog Years, Doing Time @ Amazon.com
by Michael Daisey
One of the funniest and best books written about the mad years online, from a truly distinctive new nonfiction voice.
Hell To Pay
by George P. Pelecanos
Gritty, vivid urban mystery writing, hard to come by these days (apart from Michael Connelly).
Noble Norfleet
by Reynolds Price
For my money, the best American fiction writer alive, or at least the best one I know of, coming from the best of the Southern tradition.
Unless
by Carol Shields
She's a writer with great heart, warmth and style and I've enjoyed every book of hers I've ever read.
How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life
by His Holiness, the Dalai Llama
I was wary of picking this book up, and am delighted by how wise and helpful it's been. A risk well worth taking.
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