Bill Kauffman

Bill Kauffman
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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).

Recent Essays

That’s What I Say

The great Ray Sawhill innerviews me for Uncouth Reflections.

The Cuckold’s Revenge

Front Porch Republic friend Thomas Gahr has just published Box-Shaped Heart (clever title), a novel based on an infamous instance of cuckoldry in 1880s...

The June Cleaver

Ah, flowery June, when brooks send up a cheerful tune. The Muckdogs won their home opener last night before the largest Opening Day crowd...

When Richard Met Barber

BURNED-OVER DISTRICT, NY---“Richard Fenno’s oeuvre is the most important contribution to congressional scholarship during recent generations,” says Yale political scientist David R. Mayhew. Contemporary...

Another Advertisement for Myself…

...and for John Updike's play Buchanan Dying.

And Then I Said…

I am interviewed about the movie Copperhead by the excellent Gerald Russello in The University Bookman.  

The Greenest Mountains

In the words of Frank Bryan, the University of Vermont professor whose Real Democracy is the best book ever published on the vital New...

See You at the Movies…

Herewith the spanking-new trailer for Copperhead, which Ron Maxwell (Gettysburg) directed and yrs truly scripted from a novella by the great novelist of Upstate...

Ten Years After a Space in Time

Memories....

It’s Tough to Argue Over…

...a Utica Club.

Ways to be Wicked

Via Reason, my review of Amy S. Greenberg's A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico: http://reason.com/archives/2013/02/05/americas-war-with-mexico.

Still on the Line

In which I attend a Glen Campbell concert. As a Christmas bonus, two tunes from the displaced Arkansan's haunting valedictory album: here and here.