Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays has been selected by the American Library Association's Over the Rainbow Committee for its 2018 list of "outstanding works of literature and nonfiction" of interest to LGBTQ readers and those interested in LGBTQ issues....
Fenton's fourth cover essay for Harper's Magazine, The Future of Queer: A Manifesto, appeared in the January 2018 issue, to an outpouring of support (and a couple of cranks). ...
Here's a link to the Lambda Literary Review of Everywhere Home by D. Gilson, posted 18 July 2017: http://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/07/17/everywhere-home-life-essays-fenton-johnson/ ...
Read the rave review for Everywhere Home in the East Bay Review: http://theeastbayreview.com/2017/05/...
Watch Fenton read from his new collection Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays at the James Hormel LGBT Center at the San Francisco Main Library, followed by his former student, author and editor Andrew Lam. https://youtu.be/HnWg3VAUHr4...
Two strong reviews for Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-941411-43-8 http://tucson.com/entertainment/article_164b97f3-ac06-5d82-a2db-a186f07c775f.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share&id=201408 ...
Here’s a link to photographs and a recording from the April 20, 2017 reading and talk at the Bowling Green Barnes & Noble, sponsored by Western Kentucky University Libraries. This was the official premiere of my new collection Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays. http://library.blog.wku.edu/?p=13910...
Remarks, Deep Dish Presentation, Institute for LGBT Studies 16 February 2017 University of Arizona Let's observe a moment of silence for Frederick Douglass, and all those who sacrificed their careers and lives so that we might be here today. Let’s gather them together in this room. A...
Recently published, in Terrain's excellent series of writers responding to the 2017 presidential election: http://www.terrain.org/2016/guest-editorial/letter-to-america-johnson/...
. . . even if he won't. http://www.salon.com/2016/12/02/no-more-reader-in-chief-after-obama-trump-the-nonreader-is-a-real-national-loss/ ...