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...
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...
“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” – T.S. Eliot, Choruses from the RockRegardless of what one thinks about the therapeutic potential or lack thereof of psychedelics, the long piece by Michael Pollan in...
Writer and writing maven Cynthia Newberry Martin maintains a blog in which writers chronicle our daily lives. She asked me to write the July entry, with a prompt from Annie Dillard: "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." But when...
Here's a link to my quick look at the roots of the literature of social justice, published in the excellent online magazine Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments: http://terrain.org/2014/reviews-reads/recommended-reads-literature-social-justice/ In autumn 2014 I'll be teaching a graduate craft of literature course through the University...
OK, here’s a chance to get more people to read about Larry Rose, and fold in another great San Francisco tip. Recently psychologist Harriet Lerner, author of The Dance of Anger and, most recently, Marriage Rules: A Manual for the Married and the Coupled Up,...
Mozart's Last Joke Learning Mozart’s Requiem -- the centerpiece of the University of Arizona Community Chorus spring concert, April 29, 3 pm, FYI – is an intense and wonderful experience. I know the piece well, and have said on previous occasion that its Kyrie is the...
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...
June 2011 The second afternoon of an eight-day silent Zen Buddhist retreat on an island in Puget Sound, I was dive-bombed by a bald eagle. Here are the facts: The retreat center (a rented Christian summer camp, more about that later) has a labyrinth, where the...
Here's a link to my latest op-ed, this in the Los Angeles Times of 5 June 2011. I have preserved the original title. In the editing -- possibly a telling comment in itself? -- "love" was dropped. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-johnson-aids-20110605,0,4195576.story ...