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John Smietanka’s radio show, “With Respect,” WSJM Public Radio
Dean interviewed about "The Deer Camp" on John Smietanka's radio show, "With Respect," WSJM Public Radio, Saint Joseph, MI, on June 16, 2019. WSJM Public Radio
Fathers and Sons: The Things We Talk About to Avoid Talking to Each Other: Literary Hub
Dad had come back to the church as part of his reunion with Mom, but we didn’t talk about it. It was just presented as a fait accompli. Dad bought me a brown tweed suit [...]
KPCC’s “Take Two,” A. Martinez interview on “The Deer Camp”
L.A. writer Dean Kuipers has a new book called "The Deer Camp: A Memoir of a Father, A Family and the Land That Healed Them." The memoir is the story about a dad gone bad, [...]
On-air review of “The Deer Camp” by Keith Taylor at Michigan Public Radio’s “Stateside” program
"As important and as moving as the family saga is, the author isn’t content with leaving it focused simply on them. Throughout the book he searches for larger answers to the problems that split this [...]
The Deer Camp: A Memoir of a Father, A Family, and the Land that Healed Them: John Wayne Journal
If anyone understood the relationship between fathers and sons, it was John Wayne—he had three of his own. But in this honestly told memoir, Bruce is a far more complicated patriarch, a man who eventually [...]
Michigan’s land redeems a family in new memoir ‘The Deer Camp’: Detroit News
Just out of Kalamazoo College and living in New York’s East Village, Dean Kuipers told anyone who asked that his father was dead. That wasn't true. But he and his dad Bruce Kuipers didn’t have [...]
A couple of questions for ‘The Deer Camp’ author: Idaho Press
Families can be messy. In Dean Kuipers’ new book, just out, “The Deer Camp,” one family, shattered on page one, grows even further apart — then comes together … only to have a bittersweet resolution. [...]
A Family Habitat: On “The Deer Camp”: Los Angeles Review of Books
IN THE SUMMER of 1989, 45-year-old Bruce Kuipers bought a 95-acre deer-hunting camp just north of Muskegon on the eastern shores of Lake Michigan. The recently divorced father of three young men — 25, 20, [...]
The Nature of Family Explored in Dean Kuipers’ New Memoir, The Deer Camp: L.A. Weekly Review
Former editor at the Los Angeles Times, and acclaimed freelance journalist for outlets including Outside, Rolling Stone, Men’s Journal, The Atlantic, Playboy, Wired and L.A. Weekly, Dean Kuipers is known for his thoughtful and immersive [...]
Exclusive Interview: The Deer Camp Writer Dean Kuipers
Some men never change, and some bad fathers remain bad fathers until their dying days. But there are some who do turn it around before it’s too late. Take the dad in Dean Kuipers’ new [...]