Klam

I am lucky enough to have met Klam and in person she is every bit as warm, funny, and just a little bit nuts as she is on paper.

Nina Sankovitch: Love Julie Klam's Love At First Bark -- and I'm a Cat Person Nina Sankovitch 2011

In her latest book, Love At First Bark, Klam offers more doggie tales with profound insights into why we humans need the companionship of our four-legged friends.

Nina Sankovitch: Love Julie Klam's Love At First Bark -- and I'm a Cat Person Nina Sankovitch 2011

What joy, and how lovely that Julie Klam can capture that joy, in yet another charming, moving, and very funny book.

Nina Sankovitch: Love Julie Klam's Love At First Bark -- and I'm a Cat Person Nina Sankovitch 2011

I am lucky enough to have met Klam and in person she is every bit as warm, funny, and just a little bit nuts as she is on paper.

Nina Sankovitch: Love Julie Klam's Love At First Bark -- and I'm a Cat Person Nina Sankovitch 2011

Klam falls in love with just about every dog she meets and I have no doubt they fall in love right back.

Nina Sankovitch: Love Julie Klam's Love At First Bark -- and I'm a Cat Person Nina Sankovitch 2011

But if anyone could talk my husband into a fostering a dog or two, it would be Julie Klam, master of rescue story telling and a woman who can break your heart with one hand but then lift your spirits higher than a kite with her conclusions of dog rescue, human kindness, and dog-human bonding -- and have you laughing all the way.

Nina Sankovitch: Love Julie Klam's Love At First Bark -- and I'm a Cat Person Nina Sankovitch 2011

That a book about dog rescuing, from the troubled streets of Upper Manhattan to the desolation of the Ninth Ward in New Orleans, can make a person feel hopeful about life says a lot about Julie Klam, and also about the bond between animals and humans, a source of sustenance that goes both ways and that cannot be denied.

Nina Sankovitch: Love Julie Klam's Love At First Bark -- and I'm a Cat Person Nina Sankovitch 2011

Azar Nafisi was also there, along with Matt Klam and his family, and sprinkled among the literati were the friends I had made over the past year volunteering at the writing center.

Sean Carman: Saint Christopher Sean Carman 2011

In her latest book, Love At First Bark, Klam offers more doggie tales with profound insights into why we humans need the companionship of our four-legged friends.

Nina Sankovitch: Love Julie Klam's Love At First Bark -- and I'm a Cat Person Nina Sankovitch 2011

What joy, and how lovely that Julie Klam can capture that joy, in yet another charming, moving, and very funny book.

Nina Sankovitch: Love Julie Klam's Love At First Bark -- and I'm a Cat Person Nina Sankovitch 2011