Journalist Tommy Tomlinson will read from his most recent book, “Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show.” The book is a look inside the Westminster Dog Show, told through the story of a champion Samoyed named Striker and his handler, Laura King, on a quest for the 2022 championship. Tomlinson traces the history of humans and dogs to explore how people created dogs and how they, in some ways, created people. Tomlinson will sign books immediately following the reading.

The free event is sponsored by the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism MFA Narrative Nonfiction Program, in partnership with The Bitter Southerner, Avid Bookshop and ATHICA (supported in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the James E. and Betty J. Huffer Foundation).