April 22, 2016
Fenton on Shakespeare’s King Lear
Read Fenton’s riff on the National Theater’s production of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, published in Silas House and Jason Howard’s online journal Still: stilljournal.net/still-life.php...
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March 29, 2016
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Interview with KET Network host Bill Goodman
Fenton and Kentucky Educational Television One on One host Bill Goodman discuss his new novel The Man Who Loved Birds and the recent reissues of his earlier novels, Crossing the River and Scissors, Paper, Rock. https://www.ket.org/episode/KONON%20001111/...
March 24, 2016
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Excellent Review of The Man Who Loved Birds in the Louisville Courier-Journal
Reviewer Jayne Moore Waldrop calls The Man Who Loved Birds “compelling . . . lush . . . unforgettable.” Read the full review here:Review | 'Man Who Loved Birds' set in Ky. KnobsJayne Moore Waldrop, Louisville Courier-Journal, March 17, 2016...
December 29, 2015
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University Press of Kentucky Issuing Three Novels by Fenton Johnson
In an unprecedented commitment to a native Kentuckian, the University Press of Kentucky (UPK) is issuing three novels by Fenton Johnson, with all three to appear simultaneously in March 2016.The Man Who Loved Birds, his newest novel, is an ambitious work that has received warm...
December 27, 2015
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Notes of an Emigrant Son: New and Selected Essays Coming from Sarabrande Press
Sarabande Press, one of the nation’s leading literary presses, has announced the selection of Fenton Johnson’s Notes of an Emigrant Son: New and Selected Essays as its 2017 selection in the Linda Bruckheimer Kentucky Literature Series.Sarabande will publish Notes in May 2017....
December 24, 2015
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Going It Alone: The Dignity and Challenge of Solitude to be Published by W.W. Norton
W.W. Norton announces the acquisition of Fenton’s Going It Alone: The Dignity and Challenge of Solitude, a book-length meditation on solitaries and solitude based on his April 2015 Folio essay in Harper’s Magazine.Going It Alone will be published in January 2018....
December 4, 2011
Medicine and the Humanities: A Collaboration
Discussant remarks, First Friday presentations, Department of English, University of Arizona 12/2/11 Introduction: Dr. Tilly Warnock, professor emerita, University of Arizona Speakers: Dr. Ron Grant, director, University of Arizona Medical Humanities Program Dr. Rishi Goyal, Ph.D. Professor Fenton Johnson, discussant Recent years have witnessed the rise of scientists writing as Renaissance...