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...
. . . 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/ ...
Read Christine Wald-Hopkins's full-length profile in the Arizona Daily Star:Author Fenton Johnson Draws Again from Kentucky Roots...
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...
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...
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/...
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...
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...
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....