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Leisure Living

A Novel · Under the BQE Press · November 2026

Leisure Living follows the story of Joe Dubay, a thirty-ish Wall Street trader who thought that he had escaped the gravitational field of a mobile home park owned by his father when he left for college.

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John Kaufmann

Mobile home park owner. Writer. Cranky bastard.

John Kaufmann is an attorney and mobile home park owner who lives near New York City. His writing has appeared in The Washington Square Review, Off Assignment, Epiphany, Tax Notes, The Journal of Taxation of Financial Products, and The Journal of Taxation of Investments. He is a 2025-2026 CUNY Writers Institute Fellow. His first novel, Leisure Living, is due to be published by Under the BQE Press in late 2026. He lives with his family in southern New York State.

  • 2025–2026 CUNY Writers Institute Fellow
  • Washington Square Review
  • Epiphany
  • Off Assignment
  • Santa Fe Writers Project
  • The Brussels Review
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