Camille Perri with Marion Winik: SOCIAL ANIMALS (Dogs Welcome!)

Meet Ivy bookseller favorite writer Camille Perri as she discusses her hilarious and heartwarming new book set in Maryland, SOCIAL ANIMALS, with Baltimore writer Marion Winik!

A dark comedy that manages to be a happy book about sad people, SOCIAL ANIMALS blends sharp observational humor, warm emotional insight, and a twist-filled mystery as three women—with nothing in common except the dogs they love—find their lives unexpectedly, sometimes disastrously, intertwining.

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Camille Perri is the author of The Assistants and When Katie Met Cassidy. She has worked as a book editor for Cosmopolitan and Esquire. She has also been a ghostwriter of young adult novels and a reference librarian. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University, where she majored in English and gender and sexuality studies, and a Master of Library Science degree from Queens College. She splits her time between New York City and the Hudson Valley with her wife and their Brussels Griffon named Pip.

Marion Winik is the author of nine books, including The Big Book of the Dead (Counterpoint, 2019) and First Comes Love (Pantheon, 1996; Vintage, 2025). Her essays have been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Sun, and elsewhere; her column at BaltimoreFishbowl.com has been running since 2011. A professor at the University of Baltimore, she reviews books for The Washington Post, Oprah Daily, and People, among others, and hosts the NPR podcast “The Weekly Reader.” She was a commentator on “All Things Considered” for fifteen years. She is the recipient of the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Service Award.

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