When you ask Kathy Chism what she likes most about quilting, she answers without hesitation: it’s the sisterhood. The Oregon native started quilting almost 30 years ago as a new creative outlet for herself, but she discovered that quilting in Central Oregon is more about community and giving. Chism belongs to three local quilting groups, […]
Peter Heller
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The Manliest Men
Peter Heller’s sophomore novel, “The Painter”
Peter Heller, best-selling author of “The Dog Stars,” wowed Bend audiences last year when he visited the community as part of The Deschutes County Public Library’s “Novel Idea” program. His sophomore novel, “The Painter,” offers yet another moving narrative, and one that is sure to appeal to the outdoorsy, artistic, life-on-the-fringes reader, a demographic which […]
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Road Warrior Meets A River Runs Through It
Peter Heller’s mild-mannered apocalypse: The Dog Stars
After The Road won a Pulitzer Prize in 2005, critics thought Cormac McCarthy had the final word on post-apocalyptic literary fiction. They didn’t see Peter Heller coming. In The Dog Stars, a national bestseller that appeared on multiple “best of” lists when it was released last year, Heller employs all the tropes of the popular […]