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Jay Walljasper--citizen of Minneapolis, former editor of Utne Reader, and among America's most insightful and humane observers of urban places--is sharing via free e-book his latest, How to Design Our World for…
Bill Kauffman
July 23, 2013

Jay Walljasper–citizen of Minneapolis, former editor of Utne Reader, and among America’s most insightful and humane observers of urban places–is sharing via free e-book his latest, How to Design Our World for Happiness: A Commons Guide to Placemaking, Public Space, and Enjoying a Convivial Life. It’s wisdom about the commons by a man of uncommon wisdom.

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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.