© 2025 WJSU
Jackson Mississippi's Source for News and Jazz
Donate
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
Public media is under attack! Stand with WJSU by donating today.
Text WJSU to 71777 or click the Donate button.

'The Rural Life': Reflections on Rustic Living

By Alex Chadwick
Published December 29, 2002 at 11:00 PM CST

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to writer Verlyn Klinkenborg about his new book, The Rural Life, a collection of essays about life in the countryside in different parts of America. Klinkenborg lives part of the week in New York City, and part of the week on a farm in upstate New York.

Copyright 2002 NPR
Alex Chadwick
For more than 30 years, Alex Chadwick has been bringing the world to NPR listeners as an NPR News producer, program host and currently senior correspondent. He's reported from every continent except Antarctica.