From Broadway Books in Portland, OR: On Inauguration Day 2017, Broadway Books gave away copies of We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This gesture was so well received, we decided to select a book to give away on this year’s Inauguration Day. After much deliberation, the book we selected is Wendell Berry’s Think Little. This slim …
What do you do at the bookstore? My job at the bookstore entails an endless list of tasks. Most imporantly, I am learning how to be a bookseller. Not only am I learning about books and authors, but also learning how to best serve bookstore customers. What do you do outside of the bookstore? When …
“What makes a human being ‘true’? This is the question that Wendell Berry has answered in the way he has lived his life and in the spare elegance of his pen. Berry has selected poems from across his life that celebrate the gifts of locality, neighbors, knowing and being known. He exults in a passionate …
“This is a wonderful collection of essays and memorials where Berry ‘pays the debt’ he owes to the writers who have been a part of his literary life. These are touching tributes and thoughtful accounts of his writing life. I most appreciated his thoughts on how he has tried to honor his native landscape through …
“To the extent that a life can have an agenda, my life’s agenda for a long time has included some sort of deliberative writing about the poetry of William Carlos Williams as a payment or at least an acknowledgement of a personal debt,” says poet, novelist and essayist Wendell Berry. The result is this absorbing volume, …
