Fenton's fourth cover essay for Harper's Magazine, The Future of Queer: A Manifesto, appeared in the January 2018 issue, to an outpouring of support (and a couple of cranks). ...
Read the rave review for Everywhere Home in the East Bay Review: http://theeastbayreview.com/2017/05/...
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 ...
Recently published, in Terrain's excellent series of writers responding to the 2017 presidential election: http://www.terrain.org/2016/guest-editorial/letter-to-america-johnson/...
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....