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by Michael Schaffer

I have a piece out in the Boston Globe’s “Ideas” section about the phenomenon that undergirds a lot of the changes I wrote about in my book–the social promotion of pets from man’s best friend to America’s ersatz child. You can read it here. There’s also a Q and A with me from TIME magazine here. I taped an interview with Terry Gross last week for Fresh Air on NPR. It’s supposed to air shortly, though I’m not sure of the date. And I have a number of other radio gigs in the next few weeks: public radio’s Marketplace (air date undetermined; it’s soon), To The Best of Our Knowledge (April 12); Pet Life Radio’s Oh, Behave! (podcast); KERA-FM’s Think! (April 2); Wisconsin Public Radio’s Conversations with Kathleen Dunn (April 8); WHYY-FM’s Radio Times (April 9); and more still to come. By which point you’ll pretty much be sick of One Nation Under Dog.