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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 [...]