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Port William: The Stories

Uncollected stories now include:

  • "Nothing Living Lives Alone" The Threepenny Review. Spring 2011. An O. Henry Prize Story, 2012. (The third section of this story has been published as "Time Out of Time (1947-2015)" in the 2022 collection How It Went.)
  • "The Stackpole Legend" The Threepenny Review. Spring 2024.

NC Nathan Coulter. Houghton Miflin, 1960. Revised North Point, 1985.

PE67 A Place on Earth. Harcourt Brace, 1967. Revised North Point 1983.

PE A Place on Earth. Revised North Point 1983.

BW "The Bringer of Water" in Farming: A Hand Book. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.

OJ The Memory of Old Jack. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. Revised Counterpoint, 1999.

WB The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership. North Point, 1986.
1. "Thicker Than Liquor (1930)"

2. "Where Did They Go? (1947)"
3. "It Wasn't Me (1953)"
4. "The Boundary (1965)"
5. "That Distant Land (1965)"
6. "The Wild Birds (1967)"

R Remembering. North Point, 1988.

DK The Discovery of Kentucky. Gnomon Press, 1991.

F Fidelity. Pantheon, 1992.
1. "Pray Without Ceasing" 1912

2. "A Jonquil for Mary Penn"
3. "Making It Home" 1945
4. "Fidelity" 1977
5. "Are You All Right?"

WW Watch With Me and Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Née Quinch. Pantheon, 1994.
1. "A Consent - 1908"
2. "A Half-Pint of Old Darling - 1920"
3. "The Lost Bet - 1929"
4. "Nearly to the Fair - 1932"
5. "The Solemn Boy - 1934"
6. "Turn Back the Bed - 1941"
7. "Watch With Me - 1916"

WL A World Lost. Counterpoint, 1997.

TM Two More Stories of the Port William Membership. Gnomon Press, 1997.
1. "A Friend of Mine" 1967
2. "The Inheritors"

JC Jayber Crow. Counterpoint, 2000.

HC Hannah Coulter. Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004.

DL That Distant Land: The Collected Stories. Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004.
1. The Hurt Man (1888)

2. Don't Send a Boy to Do a Man's Work (1891)
3. A Consent (1908)
4. Pray Without Ceasing (1912)
5. Watch With Me (1916)
6. A Half-Pint of Old Darling (1920)
7. The Lost Bet (1929)
        Nathan Coulter (1929-1941)
8. Thicker than Liquor (1930)
9. Nearly to the Fair (1932)
10. The Solemn Boy (1934)
11. A Jonquil for Mary Penn (1940)
12. Turn Back the Bed (1941)
        Andy Catlett: Early Travels (1943)
        A World Lost (1944) 
        A Place on Earth (1945)
13. Making It Home (1945)
14. Where Did They Go? (1947)
15. The Discovery of Kentucky (1952)
        The Memory of Old Jack (1952)
16. It Wasn't Me (1953)
17. The Boundary (1965)
18. That Distant Land (1965)
19. A Friend of Mine (1967)
20. The Wild Birds (1967)
21. Are You Alright? (1973)
        Remembering (1976)
22. Fidelity (1977)
        Jayber Crow (1986)
23. The Inheritors (1986)
        Hannah Coulter (1922-2000) 

AC Andy Catlett: Early Travels. Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006.

W Whitefoot: A Story from the Center of the World. Counterpoint, 2009.

PT A Place in Time: Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2012.
1. The Girl in the Window (1864)
2. Fly Away, Breath (1907)
3. Down in the Valley Where the Green Grass Grows (1930)
4. Burley Coulter's Fortunate Fall (1934)
5. A Burden (1882, 1907, 1941)
6. A Desirable Woman (1938-1941)
7. Misery (1943)
8. Andy Catlett: Early Education (1943)
9. Drouth (1944)
10. Stand By Me (1921-1944)
11. Not a Tear (1945)
12. The Dark Country (1948)
13. A New Day (1949)
14. Mike (1939-1950)
15. Who Dreamt This Dream? (1966)
16. The Requirement (1970)
17. An Empty Jacket (1974)
18. At Home (1981)
19. Sold (1991)
20. A Place in Time (1938-2008)

AB The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2017.
1. The Order of Loving Care
2. A Long Ancestry
3. The Branch Way of Doing
4. The Art of Loading Brush

WB1 Wendell Berry: Port William Novels & Stories, The Civil War to World War II. Ed. Jack Shoemaker. New York: Library of America, 2018.
This volume contains items 1, 3-13 (including the novels) of That Distant Land and items 1-11 of A Place in Time.

HW How It Went: Thirteen More Stories of The Port Wiliam Membership. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2022.
1. The Divide (VJ-Day)
2. A Conversation (1943-2013)
3. A Clearing (1945-2015)
4. One Nearly Perfect Day (1946)
5. Time Out of Time (1947-2015)
6. One of Us (1950)
7. Dismemberment (1974-2008)
8. The Great Interruption: The Story of a Famous Story of Port William and How It Ceased to Be Told (1935-1978)
9. How It Went (1979-1994-2002)
10. The Branch Way of Doing (1932-2004)
11. The Art of Loading Brush (2015)
12. A Time and Times and the Dividing of Time (1944-2019)
13. A Rainbow (1945-1975-2021)

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