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Bill Kauffman
American Life
How one bad scene can ruin an otherwise great movie
When I go on an early 1970s jag — revisiting the golden age of American cinema — I can never bring myself to rewatch Five Easy Pieces
By Bill Kauffman
American Life
The awesome Alan Pell Crawford
The writer has made a literary reputation on his fluid narratives of late eighteenth and nineteenth-century Southern history
By Bill Kauffman
American Life
Gazing at the eclipse in Walt Whitman’s perfect silence
Is it possible to love a science, or any branch of knowledge, despite one’s abysmal ignorance thereof?
By Bill Kauffman
American Life
The story of Vince Maney
That’s all he played, one single game, and it took him almost a century to get credit for it
By Bill Kauffman
American Life
My biggest regrets
Mine are for things undone, unmade, untold. They’re hardly earth-shattering, but still…
By Bill Kauffman
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