June 12, 2017
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Rave review for Everywhere Home
Read the rave review for Everywhere Home in the East Bay Review: http://theeastbayreview.com/2017/05/...
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May 24, 2017
San Francisco Public Library Reading from Everywhere Home with Andrew Lam
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...
May 5, 2017
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Strong Reviews for Everywhere Home
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 ...
April 23, 2017
Reading/Talk at Western Kentucky University
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...
December 4, 2016
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Salon names Geography of the Heart one of ten books the President-designate should read . . .
. . . 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/ ...
July 28, 2016
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Full-length profile in the Arizona Daily Star
Read Christine Wald-Hopkins's full-length profile in the Arizona Daily Star:Author Fenton Johnson Draws Again from Kentucky Roots...
May 2, 2016
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Review of The Man Who Loved Birds and more in Tucson’s Arizona Daily Star
Read the reviews of The Man Who Loved Birds as well as Crossing the River and Scissors, Paper, Rock in Tucson’s Arizona Daily Star. Scroll down; the reviews appear on the left column.www.tucson.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/southern-arizona-authors/article_854f5e68-123e-56d3-9874-c8c8785eff9b.html...
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...
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...