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Martha McPhee is the author of four novels, most recently Dear Money.

Edna O’Brien’s <em>The Country Girls Trilogy</em>

Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls Trilogy

Utterly foreign and completely familiar

by Martha McPhee | Monday, June 15, 2015
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Details, Please

by Martha McPhee | Monday, June 16, 2014
The Deal

The Deal

Looking for an apartment in Manhattan takes patience, courage, and, sometimes, a bag full of cash

by Martha McPhee | Friday, March 01, 2013
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What Is a Dog?

by Chloe Shaw

We admit that unofficial, national fill-in-the-blank days can sometimes feel contrived. (National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day, anyone?) But National Hug Your Dog Day (April 10) is too good not to celebrate, especially if it means we can revisit one of our favorite essays: Chloe Shaw’s “What Is a Dog?” from our Spring 2018 issue. After losing a beloved hound named Booker—described as a “wolf meets horse meets dinosaur meets tongue”—Shaw confronts the joys and inevitable sorrows of loving a pet. “A dog is a second chance. A dog is death and life. A dog is plush red carpet and fresh warm pee.” A dog is worth celebrating, and not only on April 10.