The Black Dog of Fate

Joe Manganiello On Getting Sober, The Mystery Illness That Almost Killed Him & The Trauma We Inherit

The Rich Roll Podcast, 12 October 2026. The book comes up at 2 hr 0 min in.

Joe Manganiello calls The Black Dog of Fate by Peter Balakian his favourite memoir, describing it as Balakian's account of his grandmother's survival of the Armenian genocide. He says it was a major influence on him, and that Balakian helped him write and fact-check the genocide chapter of his own book Bloodlines.

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