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 memoir, The Deer Camp: A Memoir Of A Father, A Family, And The Land That Healed Them (
When Dad’s Land Finally Came to Life: Outside Review
The Deer Camp: Kirkus Review
Kuipers (Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado’s War to Save American Wilderness, 2009, etc.) returns with a frank, personal, and sometimes-painful account of his fractured family.
The author, who has written about environmental issues for decades, tells a grim but ultimately uplifting story about his family, mostly his father, a serial adulterer in his first marriage but […]
The Deer Camp: Publishers Weekly Review
Environmental writer Kuipers (Burning Rainbow Farm) recounts his family’s connection to Michigan’s landscape and its influence on his and his brothers’ relationship with their father. Despite their father’s philandering, domineering attitude and religious zeal, Kuipers and his younger brothers, Brett, who finds solace being alone in the woods, and Joe, an alcoholic with suicidal thoughts, […]
Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness
Rod Coronado's most spectacular act of eco-sabotage occurred on the evening of November 8, 1986. Coronado and David Howitt, both about 20 years old and members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, sought to do nothing less than cripple Iceland's whaling fleet and draw attention to countries flouting a global ban on the hunting of whales then in place. Camouflaged in dark rain gear and ski masks, they first destroyed the Hvalfjordur whaling station, smashing its computer control room, confiscating record books to prove that Iceland was still killing whales, and dumping expensive repair equipment into the fjord.
Operation Bite Back on Very Short List
Operation Bite Back was featured on the Very Short List for today, August 20, 2009.
Christian Science Monitor: “Operation Bite Back” major reviews
The new review on the Christian Science Monitor site reminds me that I haven’t put up the other terrific reviews of the book posted by other sites. I’m proud of what’s been said about the book thus far. Oh, yes, there’s a long, drawn-out screed about the book posted on Amazon by Teresa Platt, executive […]
“Operation Bite Back” on Christian Science Monitor
Very nice piece on the book just went up on Christian Science Monitor site. Nice intro, good interview. And it’s available as a Podcast on their site. You can find it here.
The book is getting incredibly favorable treatment from reviewers who pick it up. […]
Burning Rainbow Farm Book Review
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
August 18, 2006
Ruby Ridge, Waco — and Rainbow Farm?
The first two sites of notorious government violence within the United States seared their way into the American consciousness, but the third site remains largely unknown outside the Midwest. That’s because the outrage on a 54- acre farm in […]
Property forfeiture: gateway law to chaos?
Seattle Times
August 11, 2006
Every so often I read a book that stays with me for days. “Burning Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke” (Bloomsbury, 374 pp., $24.95), the story of how two pro-marijuana activists were killed in 2001 on their Michigan farm, is such […]