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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 [...]
When Dad’s Land Finally Came to Life: Outside Review
I pushed through the screen door of our cabin, worried about what I might find. It was the first fine week of spring 2004, and a warm wind off Lake Michigan gently raked the pollen [...]