Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets, Brookland, present Joshua Stephens to discuss his new book The Dog Walker: An Anarchist's Encounters with the Good, the Bad, and the Canine.
In 2006 Stephens founded a worker-cooperative dog-walking agency in Washington. This might seem an unlikely day job for an anarchist whose usual concerns include activism and publishing in AlterNet, Truthout, and Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, but Stephens calls it “probably the greatest job in the world,” and this series of “field notes” recounts the unexpected lessons he learned on the street, from issues of gentrification to harassment to empathy in all its many guises.
