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).
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...
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...
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.
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...