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: Quantifying Unreasonableness
This one will get weird, but I think it’s cool, so read it all the way through, and if you can’t read have someone else read it to you. Many of you know that I play poker,
MICHAEL BUNKER: The Contradiction Flood
This particular article is from my “Logic and Reason” series on my website at MichaelBunker.com. I’ve abridged and amended it here because I think it might serve some people with everything going on these days. Today’s Bunker
MICHAEL BUNKER: Gather Ye
Last night the cold front blew in gently, and a day ago it was 82 degrees and then 28 this morning and brisk, clear, and beautiful blue skies. Just yesterday I sat out in front of the
MICHAEL BUNKER: The Real Old West
Brownwood, Texas has a larger and lengthier trove of Old West history than the more famous Old West icons like Deadwood or Tombstone. That’s saying a lot, and most people don’t know it. But it’s true. A
MICHAEL BUNKER: Someone’s going to get killed
A pedestrian was killed by an automobile in Coleman on Friday. If something isn’t done about traffic and parking enforcement in downtown Brownwood, it’ll happen here too, and that’s a sad guarantee. This particular column will be
MICHAEL BUNKER: Exiting the Simulation
A small town can save the world. Towns are a lot like families. Sometimes towns like to cover up an interesting past because they think people want a sterile, cardboard cutout “modern” façade. “People are comfortable with
MICHAEL BUNKER: Poker at the End of the World
What in the world could this be about? Hold on and buckle up, this could be a bumpy ride. Huey Lewis used to sing “I Want a New Drug” and in the song he described the perfect
MICHAEL BUNKER: I Write The… Memories
You know I’m fascinated with memory and how the mind works. I wrote a column here not long ago about how all memories are false. You should go check it out. Still, memory exists for a reason
MICHAEL BUNKER: Which Way to Here?
This is the part where I tell you what was going on when I thought about what I was going to write – where I was, or what I was doing. I talk about the tiny green