- Published: 22 January 2019
- ISBN: 9781640091580
- Imprint: Catapult
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 288
- RRP: $36.00
The Art of Loading Brush
New Agrarian Writings
- Published: 22 January 2019
- ISBN: 9781640091580
- Imprint: Catapult
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 288
- RRP: $36.00
Praise for The Art of Loading Brush "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 . . . The Art of Loading Brush is singular in Berry’s corpus." —The Paris 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 . . . Vintage Berry sure to please and instruct his many admirers." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "About everything he loves and everything he regrets he has never written better." —Booklist (starred review) "Berry has faithfully cultivated his given life within the limits of his marginal place in rural Kentucky, and . . . in the essays, stories, and single poem collected in his latest book, he distills his life’s varied work into a coherent sense. And like Kentucky bourbon, it is a complex, mature sense, flavored by the fields and forests of his place." —Englewood Review of Books "The cumulative force of these lyrical essays takes the reader’s breath away, as if we have relearned something essential that contradicts the world all around us . . . Here is a man deeply rooted, wisely aware, offering a manifesto of weighty moral passion. He exposes the counterfeit quality of our dominant life and summons us to know and live differently." —The Christian Century