Bill Kauffman

Bill Kauffman
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Bill Kauffman, a founding editor of Front Porch Republic, is the author of eleven books, among them Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette (Holt), Ain’t My America (Metropolitan), and Poetry Night at the Ballpark (FPR Books).

Recent Essays

I’m…Waiting for My Manuscript

Okay, one more advert for myself, or rather my latest, lukewarm off the presses from Front Porch Republic Books: Poetry Night at the Ballpark...

Surely Booth

Tarkington, that is. America Moved, edited by our very own Jeremy Beer, receives an exceptionally fine review in the University Bookman by their fellow...

Visit to a Small Planet

BURNED-OVER DISTRICT, NY -- As New Horizons races past Pluto this week, I offer this blast from the recent past, a tribute to the...

Harriet Tubman, in a Child’s Eye

BURNED-OVER DISTRICT, NY - I’m overjoyed that the phiz of that bastard Alexander Hamilton, the father of corporate capitalism, will be removed from the...

“My Dad” by Paul Westerberg

A Father's Day song, courtesy of the pride of the Twin Cities. Yeah, it's a couple of days early, but then as Senator Henry...

The Gentlemen from Indiana

Booth Tarkington and Jeremy Beer, that is. From The American Conservative. And what the hell, here's R. Dean Taylor (a Canadian) too.

Spangled Webb

On James Webb, novelist-politician.

Missouri Loves Company

I’ve caught a lot of lucky breaks (or unmerited graces) in my life. For instance, I had two superb editors at Henry Holt, which...

White Hunter, Iraq Heart

From Reason, the excellent Jesse Walker locates American Sniper within a semi-nativist (if sometimes anti-native) American antiwar tradition. For what it's worth, I found...

Drove My Chevy to See Levy

From The American Conservative, the art of Alexander O. Levy, who painted the street where he lived.

The Gales of November

What the populist campaign of Zephyr Teachout presages (maybe).

The Inconstant Gardners

Those whom fortune has favored so bountifully as to place them within spitting distance of Batavia, New York, this Saturday, October 25, at 8...