Lennart Lovecraft Larsson was a dog.

He had long, very white fur with large black eye patches and long, lynx-like ears with tufts of hair at the ends. One eye was brown, the other blue. He was the size of a Labrador retriever, loved howling at passing ambulances, and was hypoallergenic. He enjoyed peeing on fire hydrants, chasing cats, and barking at strangers. He was smart, mischievous, and loyal to a fault.

And, oh yes, he was a lifelong Democrat. 

‘How might this be?’ you may ask. 

Well, to be clear, Lennart hadn’t always been a canine. No, for much of his life he had been L.L. Larsson, son of Rachel Slovic, a nice Jewish girl from Lincoln Park, a leafy neighborhood on Chicago’s North Side, and Lars Larsson, a Swedish graduate student from the lovely village of Leksand, in the historic Dalecarlia region, working on his PhD in political science at the University of Chicago.... 

On today's show, host Randy Morse reads Chapter 12 from his novel-in-progress, The Man Who Became a Dog. 

Lennart, newly arrived at Quirk Press, a boutique publishing house in Manhattan, has dinner with the firm's editor-in-chief, Zelda Gibbons.