The Loneliness of the Long Dissonant Reader

Or, "Can you hear me in the back? Why don't we all move in a little closer..." My latest column in the absolutely essential American Conservative: http://www.amconmag.com/blog/the-loneliness-of-the-long-dissonant-reader/.

Or, “Can you hear me in the back? Why don’t we all move in a little closer…” My latest column in the absolutely essential American Conservative:
http://www.amconmag.com/blog/the-loneliness-of-the-long-dissonant-reader/.

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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.

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  • Bill Kauffman

    Alas, Thomas G, my dad threw out all his old skinny ties.

  • If you don’t have a crushed velvet robe in the wardrobe, perhaps you could re-assemble the outfit you wore to that Gang of Four concert in 79.

    Wish I could be there in person.

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