How It Went

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 Andy’s life, from before the outbreak of the Second World War to the threatened end of rural life in America.

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 Berry’s offer entry into the fictional place of value and beauty that is Port William, Kentucky.

Berry has said it’s taken a lifetime for him to learn to write like an old man, and that’s 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.

Titles by Author

The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry 
The World-Ending Fire
What Are People For? 
Home Economics
Remembering
Jayber Crow
Andy Catlett 
A World Lost 
A Place on Earth 
Nathan Coulter
Hannah Coulter
That Distant Land
How It Went

This title has been compiled by the Rabbit Room Press. You can see the full collection we carry here.