![I first read [Wendell Berry] short-story collections, "Fidelity" and then "Watch with Me." They just knocked my socks off. The characters and the fellowship of the small town reminded me of my own small town in Illinois.Then I discovered that, much like J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, that all of Berry's fiction was centered in this same town.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-first-read-wendell-berry-short-story-collections-fidelity-and-then-watch.jpg)
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