For more than four decades, two American literary icons — author Wendell Berry and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder — corresponded with each other on topics ranging from art to the environment to their personal lives. Many of those letters have been collected in a new volume “Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder,” published by Berkeley’s Counterpoint Press. Snyder and Berry join us to talk about their long-distance writerly relationship.
Poetic Pen Pals: The Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder
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Guests:
Wendell Berry, writer, critic, farmer and co-author of "Distant Neighbors"
Gary Snyder, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, professor emeritus at UC Davis and co-author of "Distant Neighbors"
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