I was reading in my commonplace book this morning and ran across this quote from Wendell Berry. It come from his essay “Discipline and Hope” published in the 1972 collection: A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural: Training is a...
Doomer Optimism‘s Ashley Colby recently interviewed Current editor Eric Miller, and this podcast episode is live today. It really is a fascinating conversation about a wide range of topics, well worth a listen. And you should read Eric’s “Ideas in...
What is the focus of your current book project? What are the big questions that you are investigating and the main stories that you hope to tell in this book? My book’s working title is “A Strange and Abiding Hope:...
Literary scholar Jeff Bilbro and philosopher Josh Hochschild discuss Wendell Berry’s controversial book The Need to be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice. The event is sponsored by the National Association of Scholars. Watch:...
In honor of Eric Miller’s piece today on Wendell Berry....
The 87-year-old agrarian writer lets it rip in his forthcoming book The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice. Here is a description of the book, which is scheduled to appear in early October: Wendell Berry has...
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...
Orion Magazine has put together a nice collection of Berry essays, poems, short stories, and media clips published by the magazine over the last forty years. Here’s a talk from Orion’s 1999 “Fire & Grit” conference:...
