Bill Kauffman is the author of eleven books, among them Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette (Henry Holt), Ain’t My America (Metropolitan), Look Homeward, America (ISI), and Poetry Night at the Ballpark (FPR Books). His next book, Upstaters, is due from SUNY Press in 2026. He is a columnist for The American Conservative and The Spectator World. Bill wrote the screenplay for the 2013 feature film Copperhead. He is a founding editor of Front Porch Republic and has served as a legislative assistant to Senator Pat Moynihan, editor for various magazines and publishers, and vice president of the Batavia Muckdogs, a professional baseball team that was euthanized by Major League Baseball. He lives with his wife Lucine in his native Genesee County, New York.
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The Bob Chocolate
Yes! I came across that description of his – and my own – politics in Compos’ wonderful book Warren Oates: A Wild Life.
Makes me love Warren even more.
D.W. Sabin
Kudos to Kauffman for giving Oates and the film “The Hired Hand” the credit both deserve. Like a lot of good actors of his generation, his face was a landscape and everyman….quite unlike many of the more shallow and one dimensional pretty-boy actors of this day. He was imperfect and ragged…a physical heir of the Dark and Bloody Ground that spawned him.
Jeremy Beer
Reticulator — pick up a Kauffman book–any one of ’em. You’ll learn all you need to know.
The Reticulator
I feel cheated. I was hoping to learn more about constitutional anarchism.
Bob Cheeks
Bill, thanks for this. And, now a whole mess of Warren Oates films to order from Netflixs.
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