Interviews

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

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"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)

"Education Is A Dangerous Thing: A Conversation With Wendell Berry" by David Kern (Forma, March 2018)

"'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)

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

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

"Interview with Wendell Berry" by Murray McAdam (UC Observer, January 2017)

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

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

"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).

"A Return to the Local: You Stay Home Too" World Watch September/October 2000 (pdf)

"Singing to Keep the Mind Awake: Interview with Wendell Berry" conducted 13 March 2005  (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)

"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)

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

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

"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)

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Wendell Berry Interviews and Converses with Others

A conversation with Bill McKibben, KET 2007

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

In conversation with Wes Jackson, moderated by Marla Camp in Austin, Tx, December 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 at Slow Money 2014, November 11, 2014

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

In conversation with James Rebanks, Louisville Free Public Library, November 9, 2016

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)

"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)

link-checked 5 April 2018