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    Dispatches from Rural America

    Sixteen Essays

    Author Wendell Berry
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    Catapult | Counterpoint
    On sale Oct 27, 2026 | 256 Pages | 9781640098589
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    A bold and brilliant new collection of essays by one of our most important writers of life in America today

    This new collection gathers together for the first time sixteen essays by one of our most revered chroniclers of life in America. A landmark commentary on family, faith, community, and the threats of modernization.

    Ranging from topics on the deadly effects of war on children to the endless problems of industrialism and the ubiquitous need for connection and community, Dispatches From Rural America captures a country isolated from its land and beginnings, too focused on mass production and output, and perilously estranged from the spiritual centers that make up the foundation of our lives. 

    On the cusp of the fiftieth anniversary of Berry’s seminal book The Unsettling of America, Dispatches From Rural America is urgent and vital reading in this time of political chaos and threat from one of our most important writers.
    WENDELL BERRY, an essayist, novelist, and poet, has been honored with the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the John Hay Award of the Orion Society, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, among other distinctions. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama, and in 2016, he was the recipient of the Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle. Berry lives with his wife, Tanya Berry, on their farm in Henry County, Kentucky.
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    A bold and brilliant new collection of essays by one of our most important writers of life in America today

    This new collection gathers together for the first time sixteen essays by one of our most revered chroniclers of life in America. A landmark commentary on family, faith, community, and the threats of modernization.

    Ranging from topics on the deadly effects of war on children to the endless problems of industrialism and the ubiquitous need for connection and community, Dispatches From Rural America captures a country isolated from its land and beginnings, too focused on mass production and output, and perilously estranged from the spiritual centers that make up the foundation of our lives. 

    On the cusp of the fiftieth anniversary of Berry’s seminal book The Unsettling of America, Dispatches From Rural America is urgent and vital reading in this time of political chaos and threat from one of our most important writers.

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    WENDELL BERRY, an essayist, novelist, and poet, has been honored with the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the John Hay Award of the Orion Society, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, among other distinctions. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama, and in 2016, he was the recipient of the Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle. Berry lives with his wife, Tanya Berry, on their farm in Henry County, Kentucky.
    Wendell Berry View titles by Wendell Berry

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