Writer Bill Kauffman to speak at Lift Bridge Book Shop

On his paperback tour, Bill Kauffman will make a stop in Brockport to talk about his latest publication: Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette. Raised in Batavia, Kauffman has traveled away and then returned to the rural life of Western New York state. He now resides in Elba. Kauffman is the 2003 recipient of the Rochester Writers & Books "Sense of Place Award."

His presentation starts at 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 1.

Although Bill Kauffman describes himself as "reactionary" and "provincial," he prefers another term for his world view. "I am - frantically, unapologetically - a placeist. This makes me a virtual thought-criminal in an age of global homogeneity. 'Placeism' might be defined in the criminal code as the unreasoned love of a particular place, be it a neighborhood, village, city, or even state." As a placeist, he strives to find to find all that is beautiful and good in his little patch of ground looming between Buffalo and Rochester.

Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette is available in paperback ($13) and hardcover ($22).

The public is invited to the free presentation.