James Howard Kunstler says he wrote The Geography of Nowhere, "Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work. A land full of places that are not worth caring about will soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending."     Home From Nowhere is a continuation of that discussion with an emphasis on the remedies. A portion of it appeared as the cover story in the September 1996 Atlantic Monthly.     A new book, The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition, is scheduled for publication in December of 2001 by Simon & Schuster.     Mr. Kunstler is also the author if eight novels including The Halloween Ball, An Embarrassment of Riches. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Sunday Magazine and Op-Ed page, where he has written on environmental and economic issues.     Mr. Kunstler was born in New York City in 1948. He moved to the Long Island suburbs in 1954 and returned to the city in 1957 where he spent most of his childhood. He graduated from the State Univerity of New York, Brockport campus, worked as a reporter and feature writer for a number of newspapers, and finally as a staff writer for Rolling Stone Magazine. In 1975, he dropped out to write books on a full-time basis. He has no formal training in architecture or the related design fields.     He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, RPI, the University of Virginia and many other colleges, and he has appeared before many professional organizations such as the AIA , the APA., and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.     He lives in Saratoga Springs in upstate New York with his wife, childrens' book author Jennifer Armstrong.

James Howard Kunstler on the patio, freshly scrubbed and wondering what's for supper.		My wife, Jennifer Armstrong, author of Steal Away, Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World, and many other books for young people, at her ease.
My dog, Chloe, also known as "Chloe the pig of the meadow, the one and only, only one in the world" (the dog with the most instances of "the" in her name). Chloe passed away Oct 2, 1999, age 14. Read:  In Memoriam: My Dog, Chloe. She was a sweet, gentle beloved companion, and we miss her very much.
I drive a 1992 Toyota Pickup truck. I get around town mostly on a bike, a 1985 Univega Alpina Uno.		Jennifer and I live in this 1820s cottage, a former saddlery, a two-minute walk from the main drag in Saratoga Springs.

On an outing in Columbia County, NY. Photo by Jonathan Postal.		The Bunk-house at Schroon Lake.
Our sheltie, dour old Uncle Minch, the grumpy Scot (also known as Beauty Boy)		The Merry Thugs L. Posey a.k.a Posey Thumbalina, the queen of the peewee planet. R. Gracie the Dominatrix as a puppy..
How I wish to be remembered. (Put on waivers in 1992.)		As a crypto-hippie age 23 in 1972 on a fall afternoon near Falmouth, Mass. I am attempting to juggle

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