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: The 20-Year-Nostalgia Glitch
Not long ago I read a post on social media from a guy who pointed out that for most of the mass entertainment age (basically the last 100 years), the nostalgia trigger point has been about 20
MICHAEL BUNKER: Underground Brownwood?
My interest in tunnels and subterranean mysteries goes back a long way. I suppose it all got started when I was a boy and my family lived in Maryland, not far outside the Beltway around Washington D.C.
MICHAEL BUNKER: Immortality and Traffic
I talked about this topic in this column once before, but I was thinking about it again this morning so I decided to revise and extend my commentary. If you want to read the earlier column, do
MICHAEL BUNKER: A January Challenge
Danielle and I bundled up for a walk. We had a destination in mind, but a secondary goal was just to get out of the apartment and stretch the legs. Burn a few calories. Monday was the
MICHAEL BUNKER: Duke the Time Traveler in an Election Year
This is gonna get weird. I apologize in advance. So, there’re other types of time travel other than my kind, you know? Like this guy, right, we’ll call him Duke Houston. Duke travels through time because he
MICHAEL BUNKER: Theaters in Brownwood’s early days
I want to talk about what theaters were like pre-talkies, during the silent film era when theaters did not have expensive and bulky sound equipment, but to do that I need to lay the groundwork to show
Michael Bunker: Civilization Teetering
The way we are living now – I mean my wife and I – is an experiment. By that I mean that it is way off-course compared to the way we’ve lived most of the last twenty
MICHAEL BUNKER: Art and What it Means
The sun had come up clear and bright and the sky was only streaked with condensation trails from jets heading east or west and no clouds. Pigeons flew overhead, jumping from the Manor to the Brownwood Hotel
MICHAEL BUNKER: The End of the World as We Mis-Knew It
We’re in that kind of weird, cold time between the seemingly unending holidays and Spring. I guess you could call it “Winter” except despite what I just said, it really hasn’t been all that cold. I’m sure