Bronwen Dickey, author of “Pit Bull: The Battle Over An American Icon”

Duncan — Wed, 11 May 2016 20:51:30 +0000

Bronwen Dickey—author of “Pit Bull: The Battle Over An American Icon”— shares, in response to my observation about the already-lauded breadth and depth of the book (which had only come out the day before), how discoveries of notable information she made during the research phase spurred an unexpected, dramatic widening of her fact-finding process. She also recounts that, […]

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Darcy Dennett, director of “The Champions”

Duncan — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 05:00:50 +0000

Darcy Dennett—the director of “The Champions,” a documentary chiefly about the pit bulls rescued from Michael Vick’s dog-fighting ring—outlines her professional experience that served as a prelude to this, her feature film debut. She explains the passion that propelled her through making “The Champions,” partly born of similar work—and attachments formed with some of the […]

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Bronwen Dickey, author of “Pit Bull: The Battle Over An American Icon”

Darcy Dennett, director of “The Champions”