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Will Yandik

Will Yandik is an environmentalist and writer in Hudson, N.Y.

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Brooklyn in Bloom

by Will Yandik | Thursday, June 27, 2013
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Twain Abroad

by Will Yandik | Monday, June 24, 2013
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If Music Be the Food of Love, Rock On

by Will Yandik | Monday, June 24, 2013
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“… to Muddy Death”

by Will Yandik | Thursday, March 14, 2013
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Scientists Warm Up to Thoreau

by Will Yandik | Tuesday, March 19, 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.