WB Interviews

ESSENTIAL READING
Conversations with Wendell Berry. Edited by Morris Allen Grubbs. Jackson: U P of Mississippi, 2007

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"Care for the Earth is a Local Call: Jack Jezreel interviews Wendell Berry" (Originally published in U. S. Catholic, 1999)

"A Citizen and a Native: An Interview with Wendell Berry" (First published in Appalachian Journal Vol 31, No. 3-4) and (A long excerpt of the same at Appalachian Voices)

"Conversations with Remarkable Minds," The Gary Null Show (PRN) 24 September, 2009.

"Digging In: Wendell Berry on Small Farms, Local Wisdom, and the Folly of Greed" by Jeff Fearnside (The Sun, July 2008)

"'Everything Worthy is Under Fire': An Interview with Wendell Berry" by Thomas Healy (Counterpunch, 8 November 2010)

"Famed Ky. writer presses coal protest, wins honors" by Dylan Lovan, AP, 27 March 2011.

"Field Observations: An Interview with Wendell Berry" by Jordan Fisher-Smith

"Ground Underfoot," The Jackson Hole Weekly, 6 October 2010

"Heaven in Henry County: A Sojourners Interview with Wendell Berry" (July 2004)

How can a family 'live at the center of its own attention?' (New Southerner, Jan/Feb 2006)

How to Think about Science, Episode 8: Wendell Berry on Life is A Miracle (CBC Radio, January 16 2008)

"Hunting for Reasons to Hope: A Conversation with Wendel Berry" (Christianity and Literature, Winter 2007)

"Nature as an Ally: An Interview with Wendell Berry" (Dissent, Spring 2012)

New Dimensions Media Interviews of Wendell Berry by Michael Toms (1985 and 1992)

Orion Grassroots Network hosts a Conversation about Principled Activism with Wendell Berry, Tim DeChristopher, and Teri Blanton (12 April 2011, an mp3 recording)

"Paying Attention: A Visit with Wendell Berry" by Andrew Peterson (24 August 2010)

"The Plowboy Interview: Wendell Berry" (Mother Earth News, 1973)

"Poet, essayist, farmer, and novelist Wendell Berry," interviewed by Shana Ritter (WFIU, Indiana Public Media, 21 January 2011, recorded November 2010)

"The Short Answer: An Interview with Wendell Berry" (Preservation Online March/April 2005)

"Singing to Keep the Mind Awake: Interview with Wendell Berry" conducted March 13, 2005 (Shenandoah, pdf file) and (Poetry Daily)

"Sitting in with Wendell Berry," interviewed by Jeff Biggers (Yes! Magazine, 17 February 2011)

"Taking Care of What We've Been Given: A Conversation with Wendell Berry (Counterpunch, 4.15/16.2006)

Wendell Berry at Fora.tv

Wendell Berry at the Lannan Foundation (readings and conversation with Gary Snyder and Jack Shoemaker)

Wendell Berry at National Public Radio

"Wendell Berry draws the line," an interview by Zoé Strecker at Business Lexington (9.28.10)

"Wendell Berry's Community: Essay and Interview" by Anne Husted Burleigh

Wendell Berry interviewed by Matt Rothschild at The Progressive Radio Show (12.09)

"Wendell E. Berry Interview" for the Jefferson Lecture (January, 2012)

"Why Wendell Berry's pulling his personal papers from UK" by Charlie Pearl (State Journal)

"A Conversation with Environmental Campaigner Wendell Berry" at The Guardian (11 October 2012)

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Wendell Berry Interviews and Converses with Others

A conversation with Bill McKibben, KET 2007

In conversation with Wes Jackson, moderated by Scott Russell Sanders at Indiana University, November 11, 2010.

In conversation with Wes Jackson, moderated by Marla Camp in Austin, Tx, December 2011.

In conversation with Matthew Sleeth at the National Cathedral, April 22, 2012.

In conversation with Michael Pollan, WPFL May 1, 2013.

Interviews with Others about Wendell Berry

"The Art of Being in Atlanta: An Interview with Troy Bronsink (Everyday Liturgy)

"Matt Bonzo on Wendell Berry and The Cultivation of Life: A Reader's Guide" (CPYU Bookshelf)

"Nate Schlueter and the Post-modern, anti-modern wonder, Wendell Berry" by Brad Birzer (CatholicVote.org)