Usually, I skip the “Introduction” section of a book mostly due to impatience – when I’m ready to start reading the book I just want to start reading the book. Also, sometimes, especially in a critical edition, the intro contains “spoilers” which I don’t want to know and/or tells me how someone else has interpreted the book, which I don’t really want to know (yet anyway!) either.

But for whatever reason I decided to read the introduction to The Call of the Wild, which I am re-reading in the context of HBO’s recent hit drama series “The Night Of.” This particular introduction is by Alex Kershaw.

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I am SO glad I read this intro because I learned some fascinating information.

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