Wendell Berry is the author of fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. For over forty years he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya, in Kentucky.
""The courage of a book, it has been said, is that it looks away from nothing. Here is a brave book."" —The Charlotte Observer ""Berry says that these recent essays mostly say again what he has said before. His faithful readers may think he hasn't, however, said any of it better before."" —Booklist (starred review) ""[Berry's] refusal to abandon the local for the global, to sacrifice neighborliness, community integrity, and economic diversity for access to Walmart, has never seemed more appealing, nor his questions of personal accountability more powerful."" —Kirkus Reviews