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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

Live Where We Are

Welcome, March! William Cullen Bryant saw through your bluster: For thou, to northern lands again, The glad and glorious sun dost bring, And thou hast joined the gentle train And…
March 1, 2011

The Right Profile

My lunch with Bill Clune is served at the American Conservative: http://www.amconmag.com/blog/meet-the-marlboro-man/.
February 18, 2011

Son, Take a Good Look Around

Batavia's Tom Gahr on bummin' with his Dad.
January 29, 2011

Sargent Shriver, RIP

The last pro-life Democrat on a national ticket has died. R. Sargent Shriver, 1972 running mate of the best Democratic nominee since Al Smith, was an admirer of Catholic Worker…
January 18, 2011

The Fighting Bobs

But then Dylan is 69, and old enough to remember when the people of his place looked askance at empire. There were giants in the earth in those days.
December 21, 2010

Ida’s Own Private Husband

My review of Leigh Eric Schmidt's Heaven's Bride appeared in this weekend's Wall Street Journal.
December 13, 2010

Souls of Carnival

My review of Les Bodnar's Carnie is in today's Wall Street Journal.
December 10, 2010

Torn Screen Door

Listen to the fierce and mournful "Torn Screen Door" by the Scottish-Canadian singer/songwriter David Francey.
December 7, 2010

More Hell, Less Corn

Caleb Stegall is a real person from a real place, a Kansas patriot and a helluva good writer. His presence enriches, enlivens, and even ennobles the front porch. I very…
December 6, 2010

A Gift from the Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons, Southern hippie aristocrat Byrd progenitor of “Cosmic American Music” who spent too much tyme eight miles high, expressed his Christian faith in a number of tunes, none lovelier…
December 3, 2010

American Graffiti

Where this latest tourist among the rustics goes wrong is in not crediting the stay-at-homes with the capacity to dream, and in not noticing that some of those who “got…
December 2, 2010

Half a LaFollette’s Better than None

Jesse Walker of Reason is bummed that Russ Feingold lost: http://reason.com/blog/2010/11/03/a-farewell-to-feingold. So am I.
November 4, 2010