Join us Sat., July 2, 12 pm for lunch with Bronwen Dickey at Halls Chophouse (434 King St.). Bronwen will talk and sign copies of her new book, Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon (Knopf, hb., 352 pp, $26.95).
Tickets for this event, part of our ongoing Author Luncheon Series, are $57 – included are a three course meal and signed hardback. Click here for tickets.
About the book: When Bronwen Dickey brought her new dog home, she saw no traces of the infamous viciousness in her affectionate, timid pit bull. Which made her wonder: How had the breed—beloved by Teddy Roosevelt, Helen Keller, and Hollywood’s “Little Rascals”—come to be known as a brutal fighter? Pit Bull is the hugely illuminating story of how a popular breed of dog became the most demonized and supposedly the most dangerous of dogs—and what role humans have played in the transformation.
About the author: Bronwen Dickey is a contributing editor at The Oxford American. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Outside, Popular Mechanics, Best American Travel Writing 2009, Slate, Garden & Gun, The San Francisco Chronicle, Southern Living, World Hum, Sport Diver, and The Independent Weekly, among other publications. She lives in North Carolina.
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