Thus the success of the book, partially based on a series of columns Grogan wrote about his Labrador retriever, Marley, took many Inquirer staffers by surprise. “I always thought it was kind of, you know, cutesy-poo,” confided one Inquirer reporter, a week after Grogan wondered in print whether a group of lawyers had beamed in “from Planet Goof.” John Grogan has been at the Inquirer for just over three years now, and during that time, many of his colleagues have not particularly taken to his columns, which veer from screeds on crime and municipal issues to stories from his rather innocuous suburban life. “I found out last night that I’m moving up to number three,” John Grogan, the Inquirer’s suburban columnist, e-mailed me the following day, when it was announced that his first book, Marley & Me: Love and Life With the World’s Worst Dog, had ascended another notch on the list.
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