Bill Kauffman, a founding editor of Front Porch Republic, is the author of eleven books, among them Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette (Holt), Ain’t My America (Metropolitan), and Poetry Night at the Ballpark (FPR Books).
William Cullen Bryant selected the month of his death:
I gazed upon the glorious sky
  And the green mountains round
And thought, that when I came...
The great libertarian journalist Jesse Walker calls this Cold War liberal folkery (http://reason.com/blog/2010/05/27/you-hit-me-baby-like-an-atomic) "the most earnest song ever written." Hilariously bad. Enjoy!Â
"Would that thou couldst last for aye,
Merry, ever merry May"
--William D. Gallagher
Well, it can't. But herewith my May column from The American Conservative on...
BURNED-OVER DISTRICT, NY---Merry Christmas to all friends (and enemies, too) of Front Porch Republic! Don't you worry 'bout that quaffer-scoffer in the Quad Cities....
In today's Wall Street Journal I review Elyssa East's Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703939404574566772944605580.html. Among her subjects is...
Thanksgiving---or pre-Christmas, as it is known in marketing circles---is upon us, and between reading Truman Capote ("A Thanksgiving Visitor") and Lydia Maria Child ("Thanksgiving...
