Bill Kauffman

Mark Twain would be hopelessly out of favor with both wings of the modern duopoly

Jimmy Duncan is a man who knows his place, which is one of the highest compliments I can give

It’s hard to believe, but New York was a competitive state then

I pour myself a tumbler of rotgut and settle in with the names, these glorious names

American anarchism has always been a literary conceit more than a political (or anti-political) program

Greenville’s favorite son is the poetically tragic Shoeless Joe Jackson, the illiterate millhand whom Babe Ruth called ‘the greatest hitter I had ever seen’

The mural painted on my envisioned Thelonious Monk Alley would feature images of little Thelonious in his fireman’s cap, surrounded by firemen, and the adult Thelonious at the piano

A circuit that was born in Batavia in 1939 died in Manhattan’s oppressive Time-Life Building

To read is to invite derision, especially if you grew up in a working-class town

Should the state of New York be divided into two states?

If the stars of the generation then passing burned less brightly in the firmament, well, then it was up to me to illuminate them