The Horndog and the German Shepherd (1946)
The heart wants what it wants, Woody Allen said, and to J. R. Ackerley, the English memoirist and editor, it was Queenie. She was everything he wanted in a lover. She was also a German shepherd. For 30 years, the Cambridge-educated Ackerley (1896-1967) was a cultural gatekeeper at the BBC. As literary editor of the […]