The Elegance of the Hedgehog

By Dmitri

I haven’t read much fiction lately and cannot recall how I came across “The Elegance of the Hedgehog,” but what a gift it was. I never read anything else that was so hysterically funny and at the same time so profoundly sad. I could not wait to get back to it until turning the last…

A dog’s life

By Dmitri

We recently picked up a puppy. It was totally unplanned, really just a play of fate. On our way to Philadelphia, we stopped in Allentown to see my wife’s friend. It turned out that the friend was picking up two puppies out of a litter of six. Two of the other four were still available,…