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The Dog Stars

by Peter Heller

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Fresh Air, NPR · August 21, 2026

‘The Dog Stars’ novelist Peter Heller / Remembering rock critic Dave Marsh

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A post-apocalyptic novel about two men who become unlikely companions after a pandemic devastates the population, drawing on the author's own survival skills.

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