Dave Davies
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 7 Sep
Dave Davies’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Fresh Air · ‘The Dog Stars’ novelist Peter Heller / Remembering rock critic Dave Marsh · 21 Aug 2026
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The Dog Stars, a new film from Ridley Scott starring Jacob Alordy and Josh Brolin, is an apocalyptic drama about two men struggling to survive after a virus has wiped out much of the world's population.
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Here's a scene from the movie Alordy is speaking to Brolin's character.
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The Dog Stars, which opens in theaters next week, is adapted from a novel of the same name by Peter Heller.
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Heller knows something about survival himself.
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He's an experienced outdoorsman and adventure writer who's gone to some pretty remote places and done some pretty dangerous things.
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He wrote Heller High Water about an expedition to an unfathomably deep river gorge in Tibet.
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The Dog Stars was his first novel and became a best seller.
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His other novels include The River, Selene, The Painter, and his latest The Orchard.
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Peter Heller holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop in both fiction and poetry.
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Let's listen to some of the interview I recorded with Heller in twenty twelve, when The Dog Stars was first published.
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Well Peter Heller, welcome to Fresh Air.
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Thank you for having me.
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Now this is your first novel.
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You've written a lot of nonfiction.
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Um why a novel set in a post apocalyptic world where civilization has collapsed?
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Wow.
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The first line is I keep the beast running.
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The beast refers to an old Cessna aircraft.
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That's how you started?
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You know, I had my own n th notion about this, which is that, you know, i as I read about what you've done, I mean you've been quite an outdoorsman, you've been, you know, an expedition kayaker, you've gone to s to some incredibly remote and sometimes dangerous uh
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