Yappy Hour + Author Conversation: Melanie Kaplan with Jay Hancock: LAB DOG

Join us in the gardens out behind the Ivy Bookshop for a dog-themed happy hour (“yappy hour”!) and conversation with Melanie D. G. Kaplan, author of Lab Dog: A Beagle and His Human Investigate the Surprising World of Animal Research. Jay Hancock will join Kaplan in conversation for this special event! Bring your pup or make a new furry friend as we learn together about the breeding and use of beagles for biomedical research, drug and product testing, and education– and how to envision a brighter future for them all. RSVP here! Order LAB DOG here! Melanie D. G. Kaplan is a longtime independent journalist whose travel and science writing has appeared in the Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and National Parks magazine. She is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School, a 2021–2022 MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow, and a third-generation Washington, DC, native. Jay Hancock wrote for the Baltimore Sun for 18 years. Now he writes about history and economics on Substack. Show less