Praise For This Book Praise for The Art of Loading Brush Vintage Berry sure to please and instruct his many admirers.”- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Berry’s essays, continuing arguments begun in The Unsettling of America 40 years ago, will be familiar to longtime readers, blending his farm work with his interests in literature old and new. Filled with insights and new revelations from a mind thorough in its considerations and careful in its presentations, The Art of Loading Brush is a necessary and timely collection. Andy works alongside his grandson in “The Art of Loading Brush,” one of the most moving and tender stories of the entire Port William cycle. Four stories extend the Port William story as it follows Andy Catlett throughout his life to this present moment. “The Presence of Nature in the Natural World” is added here as the bookend of this developing New Agrarianism. The Art of Loading Brush is an energetic mix of essays and stories, including “The Thought of Limits in a Prodigal Age,” which explores Agrarian ideals as they present themselves historically and as they might apply to our work today. Berry moves deftly between the real and the imagined. There is, as Berry outlines, still much work to do, and our daily lives-in hope and affection-must triumph over despair. Our communities are as endangered as our landscapes. Berry believes that American cultural problems are nearly always aligned with their agricultural problems, and recent events have shone a terrible spotlight on the divides between our urban and rural citizens. Wendell Berry’s profound critique of American culture has entered its sixth decade, and in this gathering he reaches with deep devotion toward a long view of Agrarian philosophy. “ has never written better.” - Booklist (starred review) The Art of Loading Brush is singular in Berry’s corpus.”- The Paris Review “In Berry’s new book, The Art of Loading Brush, he is a frustrated advocate, speaking out against local wastefulness and distant idealism he is a gentle friend, asserting, as he always has, the hope possible in caring for the world, and your specific place in it.
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