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

New England Patriot

Bill Kauffman - February 14, 2014

From The American Conservative, my appreciation of the decentralist Republican (yes, they do exist) John McClaughry of Vermont.

Room with Askew

Bill Kauffman - February 7, 2014

Just finished reading a beautifully written, if unsettling, comic gem: The Disaster Artist, an account of the making of the cult movie The Room,...

Flannery Will Get You Everywhere

Bill Kauffman - December 9, 2013

Superb essay by Dana Gioia--keynote speaker at September's Front Porch Republic conference--on the Catholic writer in America today.

Gardnering at Night, Again

Bill Kauffman - October 24, 2013

Anyone blessed enough to be within shouting distance of Batavia, New York, this Saturday, October 26, at 8 pm is invited to drop by...

Piercing Hawkeye

Bill Kauffman - October 14, 2013

"I love Old October so/I can't bear to see her go," sang the Hoosier Poet of this most resplendent and melancholy month. Among the...

Paranoia Will Destroy Ya

Bill Kauffman - October 11, 2013

From The American Conservative, my review of Jesse Walker's terrific new book The United States of Paranoia.

It’s Up to You Not to Heed the Call Up

Bill Kauffman - September 11, 2013

During the First World War, the Kansas Socialist Kate Richards O'Hare was thrown into prison for violating Woodrow Wilson's Espionage Act. Her crime? Telling...

Commons Sense

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...

Threefer Monday

Bill Kauffman - July 8, 2013

Herewith links to three great tunes responding to America's wars: "Glad to Be Home" by Charles Smith and Jeff Cooper (a Deep Soul gem...

It’s the Time of the Season

Bill Kauffman - June 30, 2013

Baseball, poetry, Frederick Exley, death.

Green Mountain Cinema

Bill Kauffman - June 28, 2013

From Orion, my profile of Vermont filmmaker Jay Craven.

The War Comes Home

Bill Kauffman - June 26, 2013

This Friday, June 28, Copperhead, which Ron Maxwell directed from my adaptation of a Harold Frederic novella, opens in about 70 cities. A second...