By Nicole Dweck 10/30/07 5:12pm

The Heart of Deafness: Africa With a Hearing Aid

THE UNHEARD: A MEMOIR OF DEAFNESS AND AFRICA
By Josh Swiller
Holt, 265 pages, $14

Some people go to Africa to try to save the world. Others, like Josh Swiller, go to Africa to save themselves.

Josh Swiller lived what a stranger might consider a charmed life. From the cushiony comforts Read More

By Daisy Carrington 7/03/06 12:00am

Frankenpup

For would-be patricians of the old school, only a pedigreed, purebred dog would do. Think of The Thin Man’s Asta, the wirehaired fox terrier; Jacqueline Susann’s poodle, the inspiration for her first book, Every Night, Josephine!; Lady, the cocker spaniel; 101 Dalmations. Silent-movie stars in breakfast coats swishing jauntily down Park Avenue or Sunset Boulevard, Read More