James Howard Kunstler

What's New: Updated Nov 18, 2008

Eyesore of the Month -- November 2008

New Paintings - Gallery Five New Aug

NY Times Freakonomics Blog on the Future of Suburbia (featuring JHK)
Check out the comments to see how clueless Times readers are New

"Scenes From "World made by hand"

a Riff on 'localism' for metropolis magazine

The KunstlerKast -- New Weekly Podcast
Riffing With Host Duncan Crary
Updated Thursdays

Interview with the excellent Megan Sullivan of the Bookdwarf blog

Excellent Essay by Frank Kaminski on a batch of post-oil novels including World Made By Hand

KUNSTLER'S APPEARANCE ON 'THE COLBERT REPORT'

Interview with Grist Magazine New July 1

Interview with the University Bookman New July 1

World Made By Hand Website -- Now Up and Running
(Includes entertaining video)

The Daily Grunt
~ If I have anything to say

November 18, 2008:

David Brooks in The New York Times.

"Over the past decade, millions of Americans have had unprecedented access to affordable luxuries, thanks to brands like Coach, Whole Foods, Tiffany and Starbucks. These indulgences were signs of upward mobility."

What a moron Brooks is. Americans access to luxury was not provided by brand-name purveyers; it was made possible by cheap oil and reckless, fraudulent finance.

The Clusterfuck Nation Chronicle:
Commentary on the Flux of Events
~ Published every Monday, est. 2001

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About Me

The Boilerplate Bio and some contact information for literary and lecture related purposes.

Please note that I am leaving AOL for another email program and will not post the new address on my website. My burden of correspondence has reached the 'red line,' unfortunately, and there is no other solution to the problem. Anybody who needs to contact me about a speaking gig can contact my lecture agent, Miriam Feurele. Otherwise you can send me a regular letter (urgent messages only, please) by snail mail: PO Box 193, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866.

My Books

My books and where to get them...

Now in the stores:
World Made By Hand. A novel of the Long Emergency set in upstate New York in the not distant future, published by The Atlantic Monthly Press.

World Made By Hand
Official Website