November 25, 2020
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At the Center of All Beauty in the New York Times
Kentucky poet laureate Jeff Worley included Fenton’s At the Center of All Beauty in his Thanksgiving New York Times gratitude list. ...
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November 19, 2020
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At the Center of All Beauty in America: The Jesuit Review
A thoughtful meditation on At the Center of All Beauty (“The Single Life is a Sacred Vocation”) published in America, the Jesuit magazine. ...
Fenton Reads with Poet Julie Marie Wade
Fenton reads together with poet Julie Marie Wade in a virtual appearance hosted by Carmichael’s Books, Louisville. Watch the replay here. ...
Fenton Featured In A Spalding University Faculty Reading
Fenton in a Zoom reading with Doug Manuel, Lynnell Edwards, and Elaine Orr, presented the Spalding University MFA Program in Creative Writing. Watch here. ...
Fenton Moderates A Panel at the AFI 2020 Documentary Festival
Fenton moderates a panel at the American Film Institute 2020 Documentary Festival, following the screening of Elizabeth Barret’s “Portraits and Dreams.” The documentary profiles photographer and educator Wendy Ewald’s 1970s project of providing cameras to children living in some of the poorest counties of Eastern...
Reviews for At the Center of All Beauty – May & June
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 featured in a video essay on essayists asking difficult questions
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...
Reviews for At the Center of All Beauty – April
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 – February & March
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...
February 7, 2020
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Announcing Fenton’s new book – At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life
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...