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Reading Well: Celine by Peter Heller

In my writeup of Peter Heller‘s The Last Ranger, I wrote Heller’s gifts are in his descriptions of the natural world and in his explorations of alternate modes of contemporary masculinity, and both are on full display in The Last Ranger. … Continue reading

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Reading Well: The Last Ranger by Peter Heller

The Painter by Peter Heller was the very first book I wrote about for Reading Well. Later, I wrote up The River, and while it preceded these scribblings, his even earlier novel Dog Star remains one of my favorite novels … Continue reading

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Reading Well: The River by Peter Heller

Reading Well’s very first entry was Peter Heller‘s The Painter. Four and a half years and many write-ups later, we find Heller’s The River (2019). The novel traces two college friends as they kayak and camp along a river in … Continue reading

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