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    The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

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  • Packaged for a new generation of readers to discover Wendell Berry, this collection of 50 of his most essential essays is an urgent and essential addition to the canon of American literature

  • Counterpoint is committed to marketing Wendell Berry to a new and broader audience of readers; with new covers for Berry's books, a new look for his website, and endorsements from Zach Galifianakis, Nick Offerman, Robert Redford and other cultural icons, we're confident Berry can continue to be the voice of a movement for a new generation of concerned activist Americans

  • The acclaimed documentary about Wendell Berry, "LOOK & SEE" continues to tour the country, with screenings held at independent bookstores, farm community associations, and other cultural institutions. Promotion of this book will often tie into screening events in 2018

  • After Donald Trump's election, we urgently need to rediscover the best of radical America. An essential part of that story is Wendell Berry. Few of us can live, or even aspire to, his kind of life. But "nobody can risk ignoring him" (Andrew Marr, The New Statesman)
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCounterpoint
    Release dateMay 1, 2018
    ISBN9781640090293

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    • 4/5
      I won an ARC in a GOODREADS giveaway! The essays were very interesting. Some were a bit dry but all gave me insight into his hopes for our future . #GoodreadsGiveaway
    • 4/5
      His earlier essays, before he became a well known personality. I think his later works are just as enlightening and cogent but ....perhaps I am becoming more aware of the critical nature of the subject and become much more incensed than I used to when reading his works. I consider Mr. Berry one of the voices of our times and read whatever I can find by this author with great pleasure.
    • 4/5
      Plenty to agree and disagree with here. I nod along with the broad contours of Berry's critique of modern life, and the need to live closer to our food sources, the land that produces them, and the processes that create both foods and communities of mindful consumers. Likewise, I agree with Berry's anti-capitalistic impulses and his considered pacifism. At the same time, much of his writing steps too far into Luddism and tastes too freshly of privilege (of upbringing, of health, of temperament, of familial and economic resources) for me to believe that his life can reasonably serve as a model but for a select few disciples.
    • 5/5
      I don't generally read essays for entertainment. But after this introduction to the essays of Wendell Berry, I may change my habits. I'm a fan.I had heard of Berry for years, but this anthology of his work was an excellent introduction. Berry is disturbed and angry about the effects our wasteful, self-centered society has on the planet. He began his call for change in the 1960s while writing about his one-family farm in Kentucky.After reading his book, I am regretful of my personal choices but hopeful that it's not too late to come to peace with my life. He's helped me see the world in a completely new way, and I am excited to raise a small garden and be more appreciative of what I have.