Heller, a contributing editor at Outside magazine, Men’s Journal and National Geographic Adventure, has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in both fiction and poetry. However, when novelist Will Lavender recommended it during a workshop, calling it a beautifully written book, I thought I would finally take the hint and read The Dog Stars. The Dog Stars was one of those books that kept popping up on my Amazon recommended reading list, and Goodreads recommendations, and on the shelf at the Morris Book Shop, but I avoided it, sensing that post-apolyptic was not my particular genre. In daeandwrite’s normal posts, there are quotes from the novelists themselves and references to what other media outlets have said about the work. Nightly news just not providing enough despair for you? Need more Ebola/bird flu/AIDS/mysterious illness fear? How about Putin, ISIS, Al-Kaeda? What about global warming and the melting of the polar ice cap and the extinction of animals or the prevalence of killer bees? Just not scary enough to put you to bed with really great nightmares? I have a solution: Peter Heller’s post-apocalyptic love song to a lost planet, The Dog Stars.
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