How it went: thirteen more stories of the port william membership - wendell berry

Thirteen new stories of the Port William membership spanning the decades from World War II to the present moment For those readers of his poetry and inspired by his increasingly vital work as advocate for rational land use and the right-size life, these stories of Wendell Berrys offer entry into the fictional place of value and beauty that is Port William, Kentucky.

Berry has said its taken a lifetime for him to learn to write like an old man, and thats what we have here, stories told with grace and ease and majesty.

Wendell Berry is one of our greatest living American authors, writing with the wisdom of maturity and the incandescence that comes of love.

These thirteen new works explore the memory and imagination of Andy Catlett, one of the well-loved central characters of the Port William saga.

From 1932 to 2021, these stories span the length of Andys life, from before the outbreak of the Second World War to the threatened end of rural life in America.