WI15: Writing About Love—and Dogs: PW Talks with Jennifer Finney Boylan

Ostensibly Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs (Celadon, Apr.) is the fourth memoir from Jennifer Finney Boylan, a New York Times opinion columnist, the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College, and author of 15 books including 2003’s She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders, the first bestseller by a transgender American. [...]in a culture in which it can be very difficult for boys and men to express love, dogs allow them to go all-out with public displays of affection and mushy love talk. The book, and Boylan’s subsequent five appearances on Oprah, showed the world that a transgender person could lead a happy and successful life and was worthy of respect. Boylan fondly recalls her first job out of college at Classics Books in Manhattan: “I loved my days working in the bookstore and the young people who I worked with.