This week I joined Current editors Eric Miller and Felicia Wu Song for a conversation on Felicia’s new book Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age. The entire interview is available to Deep Water and Storm...
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How small towns survive
According to writer Tim Holt, they need a “Plan B.” Here is a taste of his piece at Zocalo Public Square: Mount Shasta, California, and Ashland, Oregon did it right. Located in the California–Oregon border region where I live, they avoided...
Philip Vickers Fithian: “The young American torn between cosmopolitan aspiration and more rooted satisfactions”
Today I heard from a professor who is using The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in an American history course. I am grateful for the way this book continues to resonate with people....
“His membership is not in a party or a public movement, but in Port William”
Wendell Berry’s Jayber Crow is one of my favorite novels. I first read it twenty years ago and revisit it often. (I think it might be time for another reading!) I love the way Berry once responded to writer Grace...