Michael Bunker
Michael Bunker is a USA Today Bestselling author, renaissance man, off-grid expert, husband, and father of four children. He’s the mixologist at Lucille + Mabel restaurant, rolls cigars, makes bourbon, writes books…and occasionally tilts at windmills. In November of 2015, Variety Magazine announced that Michael had sold a film/tv option for his bestselling novel Pennsylvania to Jorgensen Pictures. JP is currently developing Pennsylvania for production into a feature film. Hollywood heavyweight and Production Design superstar Patrick Tatopoulos (Independence Day, Maleficent 2, the 300, iRobot) is slated to direct the Pennsylvania feature film. Michael currently has two film options working in Hollywood.
Michael has been called the “father” of the Amish/Scifi genre but that isn’t all that he writes. He is the author of several popular and acclaimed works of dystopian sci-fi, including the Amazon top 20 overall bestselling Amish Sci-fi thriller Pennsylvania, the groundbreaking dystopian vision Hugh Howey called “a brilliant tale of extra-planetary colonization.” He also has written the epic post-apocalyptic novel WICK, the Amish/Robot thriller Brother, Frank, as well as many nonfiction works including the non-fiction Amazon overall top 30 national bestseller Surviving Off Off-Grid. Michael was hired by Amazon.com through their Kindle Worlds and Kindle Serials programs to write the first ever commissioned novel set in the World of Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.
Michael has been featured on NPR, HuffPost Live, Molly Green, and Ozy.com, along with hundreds of print, radio, and podcast interviews. He’s very pleased to be offering regular columns to BrownwoodNews.com.
MICHAEL BUNKER: Downtown Sound
You hear the thump, thump, thump of the bass drum when you’re inside, and when you open the door the heat smashes in on you like an intruder, and the sound comes too with the heat because
MICHAEL BUNKER: The Framing Effect
Today’s Bunker Logic and Reason Lesson is a cognitive bias called the FRAMING EFFECT. The Framing Effect cognitive bias, often combined with others, is one of the primary ways that information is presented to you today. So, let’s get started!
MICHAEL BUNKER: Heat
The heat, though seasonal enough, has been a problem. For eighteen years when we lived completely off-grid here in Central Texas, the heat was personified or anthropomorphized as the enemy. A friend-enemy. Sent to make us miserable
MICHAEL BUNKER: Bunker History Moment
In 1938, a jazz duo (Slim and Slam) comprised of a pianist and a bass player, wrote a song entitled “Flat Foot Floogie.” Now, in 1938 my favorite music was popular. The big music makers and stars
MICHAEL BUNKER: Read this
It is interesting to note how, more than in any other endeavor, the writing market tracks with the degradation or renovation of the mind of the masses. That might be a lot to take in for an
MICHAEL BUNKER: In Peril in New Orleans
It’ll be hot today. A real burner. But somehow, I went back. Sometimes a dog or a wolf or a coyote just has to bark. Like this… one night the cold/wet sat down on us like a
MICHAEL BUNKER: The Bystander Effect
Today’s Bunker Logic and Reason lesson is on a cognitive bias called The Bystander Effect. Let’s get to it! The BYSTANDER EFFECT is the social phenomenon wherein people are generally less likely to offer assistance or help
5 Things!: Downtown Lunches
(*This is the first in a new column feature wherein I’ll be calling attention to all of the great things there are to see, do, buy, experience, eat, and drink, in Brown County. Welcome to 5 Things!)
MICHAEL BUNKER: What are the best homesteading cattle?
What are the best homesteading cattle? No question. It’s the pure, historic Texas Longhorn. Not the fake, cross-bred front pasture version of this animal. But the real thing. I can hear people screaming in laughter but read