Fenton recently appeared on two podcasts to discuss At the Center of All Beauty, among other topics. The conversation with Arizona Spotlight, an Arizona Public Media podcast hosted by Mark McLemore, covers alternative ways of being happy and the valuation of friendship, and extends into a...
At the Center of All Beauty continues to receive praise from reviewers and readers. The New York Times Book Review recently published a review by Kathryn Hughes and named the book an Editor's Choice. Hughes' review calls ATCOAB a “lyrical yet finely argued book,” that manages to...
Fenton was recently featured with four distinguished authors in a Wiki video essay "Essayists Writing Books That Ask Difficult Questions." In addition to the essay, the page includes video from Fenton's 2017 reading at the San Francisco Public Library where he read from his book...
Kate Moses interviews Fenton "on solitude, artistry, and his new book" for the inaugural issue of The Gardan, the journal of Craigardan, an education nonprofit based in Keene, NY that programs residencies, courses, and workshops "at the nexus between innovation in agricultural practice, scholarly research,...
Following here, reading suggestions compiled from friends and colleagues, along with suggested readings for those interested in deepening their experience of solitude and silence. An evolving list; suggestions invited. Readings for a time of quarantine My nominee first: Carson McCullers’s The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, a...
At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life has been out for just under a month. Below are a few reviews that have been published in that time. Geoff Wisner, writing for The Wall Street Journal, calls the book a "thoughtful exploration" of solitude...
Reviews for At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life are starting to accumulate. Here are a few highlights. Kathryn Hughes, writing for The New York Times, calls At the Center of All Beauty a "lyrical yet finely argued book," that manages to...
Fenton’s new book, At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life, will be published by W.W. Norton in March 2020. The book is a meditation on accepting, and celebrating, one’s solitude, inspecting the lives and work of a dozen iconic “solitaries” and how...
An excerpt from the forthcoming At the Center of All Beauty will be published in the March 2020 issue of Harper’s Magazine....