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.
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 and Florsheim tassel loafers and then it was church twice a day every Sunday, but he wasn’t really into Bible […]
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, how nature brought him back together with his sons, and what this means for our relationship to the planet. Kuipers […]
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 family and to the place that seems to have healed them. . . . In this lovely memoir it is […]
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 abandons his family, only to try and make amends with his sons—each an outdoorsman and angry from the fallout of […]
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 any relationship to speak of, despite inhabiting the same house for 18 years.
In his new book, “The Deer Camp: […]
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. Sort of. In a nutshell, it is about how a storied piece of land purchased by the author’s alienated father after […]
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, and 18 years of age at the time of the acquisition — Bruce was best known to his family for […]
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 narratives about environmental politics, social issues, culture, arts and human nature. His books have covered everything from […]