Philadelphia Magazine
"Marley and Me" has made Philadelphia Inquirer columnist
John Grogan a millionaire. "We're all like, why?" says a colleague. "How did this happen?"
Jessica Pressler writes:
"Of course, they know the answer is immediate and obvious: Put a picture of a cute puppy on the cover and They Will Come. What's painful to admit is that there's more to it than that: Ironically, the things that annoy them about Grogan's
column are the things that have helped make 'Marley & Me" so successful." NOTED: "['Tuesdays with] Morrie,' like Marley, was a best-selling juggernaut by a newspaper columnist, a nonfiction memoir with a self-help sheen, and self-help, like service, is extremely popular."
