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...a Utica Club.

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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.

2 comments

  • D.W. Sabin

    As ole Ed used to say: “they say that if you can survive in New York City, you can survive anywhere. I say if you can survive anywhere, why survive in New York City?”

    then again, all Ed ever needed was some slick rock and perhaps a well turned ankle.

  • Flat Head

    Haha…I thought the piece was going to be about beer…

    My father-in-law gives me a beer bucket every Christmas filled with Genesee Cream howitzer shells.

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