Walker, that is. His The United States of Paranoia is out today in paperback. Buy, read, enjoy.
I Wish That I Had Jesse’s Book

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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2 comments
Brad Lundell
You really threw me Bill. For those of us in Minnesota, the word “book” and name “Jesse” always invokes the question “Someone has yet again paid him to write his latest set of alleged thoughts?”
Russell Arben Fox
I saw what you did there, Rick.
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