They’re called “dogoirs”, and they’re all the rage. I thought they were books about people and dogs. The article title references Steinbeck, and talks about some modern “dogoirs” but skips my two favorite authors of this genre.
James Herriot: For an animal lover, all his books are worth reading, but Dog Stories is the one I love best.
Jon Katz: I’d argue that more than Marley and Me’s author John Grogan, Katz started the current trend of life with a dog books. A Dog Year, his second work to feature his dogs, came out in 2002, three years before Marley.
Tags: a dog year, bedlam farm, dog stories, dogoir, dogs, james herriot, john grogan, jon katz, marley and me
love marley and me and a dog year. i refuse to see marley and me, but i did see the movie version of a dog year. it was great (it had jeff bridges as katz. of course it was great!)
for my own "dogoir" you might want to visit my Life By Pets blog. Its new this month, so not much up yet, but getting there