Dog Lovers

Puppy Chow is Better than Prozac: The True Story of a Man and the Dog Who Saved His Life

MP3 File  Length-30 minutes, 26 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Bruce Goldstein, author of Puppy Chow is Better than Prozac: The True Story of a Man and the Dog Who Saved His Life  published by Da Capo Press.

Mr. Bruce Goldstein and Ozzy

Bruce Goldstein is a full-time doggie daddy, an expressionist painter, a screenwriter, and a first-time author. A Staten Island graffiti artist turned New York City commercial artist, Goldstein has worked at several of the most respected, creative advertising agencies, including Chiat/Day, Deutsch and Hill Holliday. His work has appeared in The Bark magazine and New York Dog. Goldstein received a B.F.A. in Advertising Design from The Fashion Institute of Technology in 1992. He lives in Manhattan with his furry roommate, Ozzy.  Visit his website www.puppychowisbetterthanprozac.com

A Three Dog Life

Length-33 minutes, 1 second

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Abigail Thomas, author of A Three Dog Night published by Harcourt.

Ms. Abigail Thomas

Abigail Thomas, the daughter of renowned science writer Lewis Thomas (The Lives of a Cell, etc.), is the mother of four children and the grandmother of twelve. Her academic education stopped when, pregnant with her oldest daughter, she was asked to leave Bryn Mawr during her first year. She’s lived most of her life on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and was for a time a book editor and for another time a book agent. Then she started writing for publication. A Three Dog Life  is her fifth book; the most recent, Safekeeping, is also a memoir. She teaches fiction writing in the graduate program at The New School and lives in Woodstock, New York.  Visit her website.

Melancholia's Dog: Reflections on Our Animal Kinship

Length-43 minutes, 48 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Alice Kuzniar, Ph.D. author of Melancholia’s Dog: Reflections On Our Animal Kinship published by University of Chicago Press.

Dr. Alice Kuzniar

Alice Kuzniar, Ph.D., is a professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill where she has been teaching since 1983 apart from invitations as a guest professor at Princeton University, Rutgers University, and the University of Minnesota. She received her B.A. from the University of Toronto, and her Ph.D. from Princeton.

She is the author and editor of several books and articles, including a book on the German Romantic authors Novalis and Holderlin for which she won the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Award, and a book titled, The Queer German Cinema, on gay and lesbian cinema from the 1920’s to the present.

She lives with her two whippets, Claire and Zephyr, and three white rabbits. The whippets don’t harm the rabbits, but do help in corralling them when they escape!