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Interviews

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


"5 Questions with Wendell Berry" by Joe Waters (Capita Ideas, October 23, 2018)

"The Agrarian Life with Wendell Berry," Back to the Roots podcast, Episode 20 (mp3), 26 February 2018

"An Agro-Ethical Aesthetic:" A Conversation with Wendell Berry (UC Berkeley, October 31, 2012)

"Beautiful Places: A Conversation with Wendell Berry" by Helena Norberg-Hodge (Local Futures podcast, 19 May 2018)

"BERRY, poeta e contadino: scrivere è coltivare (e viceversa)" by Lorenzo Fazzini, Avvenire, 8 March 2016

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

"Caretaking" Wendell Berry and Helena Norberg-Hodge at Orion, Winter 2018

"Conversation: Wendell Berry" by David Kupfer, Earth Island Journal, Winter 2015

"A Conversation with Environmental Campaigner Wendell Berry" by Emma Brockes (The Guardian, 11 October, 2012)

"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)

"Field Observations: An Interview With Wendell Berry" by Jordan Fisher-Smith (The Sun, February 1994)

"For Love of Place: Reflections of an Agrarian Sage" by Allen White (Great Transition Initiative, December 2018)

"The Future of Sustainable Food: Q&A with Wendell Berry" (KQED, 5 August 2014)

"Going Home with Wendell Berry" by Amanda Petrusich (The New Yorker, 14 July 2019)

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

"Hunting for Reasons to Hope: A Conversation with Wendell Berry" by Harold K. Bush, Jr. (Christianity and Literature Vol. 56, No. 2, Winter 2007)

"Interview with Wendell Berry, NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award Winner" by Christina Berke (Creative Writing at The New School, 9 March 2016)

"Marty Forum: Wendell Berry with Norman Wirzba" (American Academy of Religion) 24 November 2013

"The Measure of Meaning: a Pilgrimage to Port Royal, Kentucky" by Sandra McCracken (Art House America Blog)

"The Mutuality of Country People" Wendell Berry and Crystal Wilkinson at The Kentucky Book Festival, 29 October 2022 (Words for the People podcast)

"My Food Hero: Ella McSweeney Meets Wendell Berry" (BBC Radio 4)

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

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

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

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

"The Value of Intangibles with Wendell Berry" (Edible Portland podcast, May 2014)

"We Are Still Near the Beginning: A Conversation with Wendell Berry," interview by Chad Wriglesworth (The Regent World, Fall 2015)

"‘We’ve got to start here’: an interview with Wendell Berry" by Katherine Dalton Boyer. (The Berry Center Journal, vol 4, Summer 2021 pdf)

"Wendell Berry: A Strong Voice For Local Farming and the Land," an interview by Roger Cohen (environment360, 6 March 2014)

Wendell Berry at KET

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

Wendell Berry at National Public Radio

"Wendell Berry, Burkean" by Gracy Olmstead (The American Conservative, 17 February 2015)

"Wendell Berry: By the Book" (New York Times, 10 March 2016)

"Wendell Berry Discusses Rediscovering Rural America" by Sarah Begley (Time. 26 October 2017)

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

"Wendell Berry, Landsman" by Jim Leach (HUMANITIES, May/June 2012, Volume 33, Number 3)

"Wendell Berry on the 'talkers and storytellers' of Port William, Kentucky" (Library of America, 24 January 2018)

"Wendell Berry's Right Kind of Farming" by Gracy Olmstead (New York Times, 1 October 2018)

"Wendell Berry: The Poet of Place" by Silas House (Garden & Gun, April/May 2020)

"Writer Wendell Berry on the 'Colonization' of the Countryside" (WHYY Fresh Air with Terry Gross, 7 December 1992)


Wendell Berry Interviews and Converses with Others

In conversation with Teri Blanton and Tim DeChristopher (on principled activism), Orion Magazine, April 15, 2011.

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

In conversation with Wes Jackson and Mark Bittman at Cooper Union, April 4, 2014

In conversation with Gary Snyder, Festival of Faiths May 14, 2014

In conversation with Laura Dunn (a brief excerpt), posted November 20, 2014

In conversation with Eric Schlosser, Johns Hopkins University, December 7, 2016

In conversation with Tim DeChristopher. Orion Magazine, February 24, 2020

Interviews with Others about Wendell Berry

The Fare Forward Interview with Jack Shoemaker (Fare Forward, 30 June 2021)

"Mary Berry: Extending Wendell Berry’s legacy is 'the most hopeful work I can think of'" (Library of America, 13 September 2019)

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

"Nick Offerman on the Essential Wisdom of Wendell Berry" (Literary Hub, 22 December 2020)

"The Quieter Virtue of Reading Wendell Berry: Conversation with Jeffrey Bilbro and Jack Baker" (Writers and Writing, 21 December 2021)

"Wendell Berry & Gary Snyder are Distant Neighbors" Paul Swanson interviews Chad Wriglesworth. (Contemplify, 10 September 2018)

"Why Nick Offerman Doesn't Miss Ron Swanson" (Men's Journal, March 2016)

links checked 12 October 2021

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