Buster

Dog Trouble, (click here) which ran in The New Yorker in January 2005, is what made me realize I wanted to write the new novel. It is the sad and occasionally comic tale of a doomed little dog and a New York block, and when I finished it, I realized there was so much more I wanted to write about New York and about living here with a dog. So I wrote The New Yorkers!
I think about tragic little Buster all the time. In She is Me, I put in a dog named Temple and gave him his own personal assistant and a beach house in Malibu. In The New Yorkers there’s an homage to Buster, too.
(If you want to read Dog Trouble in book form, check out The Best American Essays of 2005.)

Buster and Me