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NPR Interview "To the Best of Our Knowledge" Program "Good Dog"

May.14.2009
NPR Interview "To the Best of Our Knowledge" Program "Good Dog"

Maureen Adams is interviewed by NPR's To the Best of Our Knowledge host Jim Fleming about Shaggy Muses on the program "Good Dog" that aired on 4/11/09 and is available on their website.

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May.14.2008 - 6:32 pm
In Memory of Emily Dickinson, 12/10/1830 - 5/15/1886
On May 15, 1886, Emily Dickinson died after a two-year illness probably caused by hypertension. She died in her own bed with her brother Austin sitting beside her. Emily’s last...
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May.14.2009 - 1:38 pm
In response to: NPR Interview "To the Best of Our Knowledge" Program "Good Dog"
Other books and authors
Other books and authors include Temple Grandin, the Dog Whisperer and One Nation Under Dog
Feb.26.2008 - 10:51 am
In response to: Dogs and Books
Brian, Love your description
Brian, Love your description of how attuned a dog is to our every move - no matter how subtle. And the Argus scene in...

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Shaggy Muses
Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeh Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton and Emily Bronte
Published by Margaret Forster, author of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The Life and Loves of a Poet
I so enjoyed SHAGGY MUSES. It manages very successfully to bring into focus exactly why these dogs were important to these writers—an intriguing mixture of providing some with...
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Maureen Adams is a licensed clinical psychologist and an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco where she teaches graduate classes in counseling psychology. Before moving to California, she taught English at the University of Missouri at Kansas...
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Marin Humane Society, Novato, CA
Best Friends, Utah