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Jeff Bilbro’s Convivial Quest

The editor-in-chief of the FPR website discusses the recent conference in Grand Rapids and his latest book, Words for Conviviality.  Highlights Resources Jeff's bio and buy the book (and some more books)…
John Murdock
John Murdock
October 21, 2024

The editor-in-chief of the FPR website discusses the recent conference in Grand Rapids and his latest book, Words for Conviviality. 

Highlights

  • 1:00

    Pacific Northwesterner in western PA
  • 8:00

    Prospects for localism and trad wives now
  • 11:00

    Bilbro’s obsessive bibliography
  • 17:00

    Printing press 2.0 and Postman problems
  • 25:30

    Frederick Douglass, cancer patient
  • 30:00

    Margaret Fuller, proto-podcaster
  • 35:00

    Melville’s pilgrimage and Jeff’s truck-stop oats
  • 40:00

    A convivial reading

Resources

Jeff’s bio and buy the book (and some more books)

FPR’s excerpt (suitable for nailing on church doors)

Exploring Ivan Illich on the podcast

John reviews Jeff’s early works here and here

Wendell Kimbrough helps us find our way home

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

John Murdock

John Murdock is an attorney and globetrotting localist who worked for over a decade in Washington, D.C.; left the Capital Beltway to write from a family farmhouse deep in the heart of the Lone Star state; taught law in South Korea; and then rode the housing waves of Boise. In 2023, John left the crisp dry air of Idaho and returned to the stifling humidity of his native east Texas. His writing is catalogued at johnmurdock.org.