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The Colossalizing of Roads

My review of Eric Jaffe's The King's Best Highway is in today's Wall Street Journal.
Bill Kauffman
June 21, 2010

My review of Eric Jaffe’s The King’s Best Highway is in today’s Wall Street Journal. And happy first day of summer! Time for my daughter and me to sit on the front porch and enact our annual summer solstice tradition of reading the introduction (“Just this Side of Byzantium”) and first two chapters of Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine.

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A stack of three Local Culture journals and the book 'Localism in the Mass Age'

Bill Kauffman

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.