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Dean Kuipers

Dean Kuipers’s most recent books are a memoir, The Deer Camp, and, with his wife, Lauri Kranz, the how-to A Garden Can Be Anywhere. They live in Los Angeles.

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a cowboy with his head down additional themes include depression, tired, sad, sadness, western, wild west, dude ranch, relaxing, sleeping, silhouettes, and side view image was taken near high river, alberta on the western plains the western way of life is embedded into the culture of southern alberta the calgary stampede, an event dubbed the greatest show on earth, is located just half an hour north of high river image was taken with canon mark ii camera body with l series lens

California’s Farms: Drought, Depression, and Suicide

Agricultural workers are among the first to feel the mental health effects of climate change.

Dec 15, 2021
A photo of Angeles skyline and the author's farm (just to the left of blue truck) from a hilltop in Glassell Park.

Digging the Dirt on an L.A. Farm

The novel coronavirus magnifies everything about nature and the material world, revealing both threat and benefit. So go ahead: start a tray of tomato seedlings in the kitchen window.
Apr 23, 2020
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Spring 2020 Nonfiction Picks

Complicating the ordinary, letters from home, the arrival of a meteorite, and the disappearance of a son: E.J. Koh, Dinah Lenney, Harry Dodge, and Roman Dial take us into very different, very real worlds with these nonfiction selections.

Mar 20, 2020
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Nonfiction Picks for Winter 2020

Intimate and intense, these nonfiction selections are must-reads for 2020.

Feb 25, 2020
Alta California author Nick Neely

In the Footsteps of Portolá

In his new book, Alta California, Nick Neely rediscovers the Golden State one step at a time.

Sep 30, 2019
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