Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Discovering America With Benoit Denizet-Lewis’ Dog-Crazy Book ‘Travels With Casey’

Discovering America With Benoit Denizet-Lewis' Dog-Crazy Book 'Travels With Casey'

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If the title of Benoit Denizet-Lewis’ new book, Travels With Casey, evokes, like the whisper of a memory, the name of a classic book — John Steinbeck’s Travels With Charley – that’s not an outright accident. Denizet-Lewis, a longtime writer for The New York Times Magazine who has written about bulldogs and ex-gay friends (with the latter piece due to become a James Franco movie), set out on an American adventure with his dog in tow, much like Steinbeck. But the stories in this book are true (and focused on the idea of dogs and dog culture in America), unlike Steinbeck’s, as Travels With Charley has been famously haunted by accusations of being more fiction than non. … Read More

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