![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After a short while, he finds himself writing mostly about the bluegrass state, and against the career-ending warnings of his peers, decides to move back home. In Berry’s perhaps most well-known essay “A Native Hill,” he recounts the story of himself as a young writer from Kentucky, plopped into New York City in the beginning of his career. Berry’s books, particularly titles like Jayber Crowand The Memory of Old Jack serve as an apt reflection of the slow-moving but beautiful home that I miss so much now that I spend my days in the much louder Columbus, Ohio. Growing up in the foothills of eastern Kentucky as a compulsive reader and full-time hillbilly, I was instinctively attracted, like most literary-minded country folk, to the work of essayist, novelist, and poet, Wendell Berry. ![]()
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