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

Finger Foods

Set in the heart of the Burned-Over District, the Finger Lakes region of New York is among the culturally, historically, and culinarily richest parts...

George McGovern, RIP

My 2006 profile/interview of the patriot from Mitchell, South Dakota: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/come-home-america-2/.

Cast Away

On third parties: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/party-animus/.

A Goodman is Hard to Find

I’m happy to report that New York Review Books has just reprinted Growing Up Absurd (1960), Paul Goodman’s classic plea for the human scale...

Don’t It Make You Wanna Go Home Now?

Joe South, RIP:  http://youtu.be/8V1JJqNKjVU. "God, how I wanna go home...."

LDS Trip

Musings on our Burned-Over District neighbors, the Mormons: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/just-deseret/.

“Like Most Satirists I am a Reactionary”

Native son and caustically loving biographer of our country Gore Vidal  (http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-last-republican) has died. Don't mourn; read: Burr, Lincoln, Screening History, Homage to Daniel Shays, United...

Bringing it all Back Home

Reason's Jesse Walker on Benjamin Looker's account of Karl Hess, Milton Kotler, and the power-to-the-neighborhoods movement of the late '60s and early '70s: http://reason.com/blog/2012/07/10/all-power-to-the-neighborhoods.

Clang, Clang Go the Jail Guitar Doors

Today from The American Conservative: www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/rockys-drug-war/

Ray of Light

Ray Bradbury may be at peace, but I doubt he's resting. Herewith an old essay of mine on the boy from Waukegan as a Midwestern regionalist.

Monk, He Shines

I’m delighted to note the publication of Surpassing Pleasure (Porcupine’s Quill: http://porcupinesquill.ca), a collection of poetry by John Slater, a Cistercian who is known...

That Long Black Cloud is Comin’ Down…

Putting Sam Peckinpah in his place: "Peckinpah Country" (from The American Conservative).