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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.

Articles by Bill Kauffman

Clevelands Rock

From The American Conservative, the love story of Frankie and Uncle Jumbo.
October 17, 2014

Remembering Leonard Liggio

Ralph Raico eulogizes his old friend and fellow Youth for Taft Leonard Liggio, a sweet and erudite man.
October 16, 2014

I Wish That I Had Jesse’s Book

Walker, that is. His The United States of Paranoia is out today in paperback. Buy, read, enjoy.
October 14, 2014

Melancholy Late August Turns Melancholier

Our archrival of 75 years, Jamestown, leaves the New York-Penn League.
August 28, 2014

A Quaker for Peace

From The American Conservative, my remembrance of Robert D. Stuart Jr., whose family knew oatmeal.
July 18, 2014

Thoroughly Anti-Modern Milius

On John Milius, writer-director-surfer-anarchist, from The American Conservative.
June 5, 2014

Who Owns America?

In The American Conservative, Ralph Nader, paladin of the American anti-monopolist tradition, revives the great distributist-agrarian project of the 1930s.
May 21, 2014

First Dandelions of the Year Today!

Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold, High-hearted buccaneers,…
May 6, 2014

The Front Page

On Howard Owens and the relocalization of American journalism.
April 18, 2014

What Do You Feel Like Doing Tonight, Angie?

Let's rent (or buy!) Copperhead, which is being released today on DVD/BluRay.
April 15, 2014

Irish Spring (’14 Issue)

From Notre Dame Magazine, the always excellent Jay Walljasper on the promise of the Front Porch.
April 9, 2014

A Good Essayist is Hard to Find

Wiseblood Books is about to publish Dana Gioia's superb "The Catholic Writer Today" as the first in its series of "Wiseblood Essays in Contemporary Culture." Order now: Not for papists…
February 21, 2014