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Does walking with a dog enhance the experience of walking? If so, in what way? For poet Susan M. Schultz and walking artist and writer Ernesto Pujol, walking with dogs offers a means to meander, to shift perspective, and to marvel again and again at the oddity of the humans they encounter, sometimes affable, sometimes confrontational. Schultz’ latest book, More Lilith Walks, proceeds as a series of snapshot-sharp vignettes recounting her daily walks in Oahu with her dog Lilith over the two years leading up to the 2024 election. Pujol’s novel, The Dog Walker of Philadelphia, is set just before the COVID pandemic in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood where social tensions run high. In both books, the canine species’ blissful ignorance of politics exposes the absurdity of humans’ arguments and divisions.
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