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....
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....
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...