<p><b>A dog book for the 99%, <i>The Dog Walker</i> is a hugely entertaining look at the world’s greatest job—by an activist who spent a decade as a dog walker for the political class</b><br><br>Dog walking: it’s every eight-year-old’s dream! You spend your day outdoors; you interact exclusively with silly, loving, ridiculous dogs; and you get paid for it. But the reality is . . . well, actually, the reality is pretty great, too, at least according to the anarchist Joshua Stephens’s eye-opening account of the dog walker’s life.<br><br>An Anthony Bourdain of the dog walking set, Stephens reports on what every master of the trade—and every informed consumer—needs to know: always keep a spare set of keys, always have references, and never, ever board your beloved pet. But Stephens also goes deeper: he shows us what dog walking reveals about everything from gentrification to street harassment, and why radical empathy must always anchor every interaction—canine or otherwise.<br><br>Rich with hilarious anecdotes, brilliant observations, and a powerful political conscience,<i>The Dog Walker</i> calls to mind David Rakoff at his most sardonic—if, that is, Rakoff had been an anarchist who walked dogs for a living. An irreverent and perceptive fish-out-of-water story,<i>The Dog Walker</i> is totally irresistible.</p>