Part retrospective, part memoir, Fenton Johnson’s collection Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays explores sexuality, religion, geography, the AIDS crisis, and more. Johnson’s wanderings take him from the hills of Kentucky to those of San Francisco, from the streets of Paris to the sidewalks of Calcutta. Along the way, he investigates questions large and small: What’s the relationship between artists and museums, illuminated in a New Guinean display of shrunken heads? What’s the difference between empiricism and intuition?
The collection draws together essays that originally appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times, All Things Considered and elsewhere, along with new work. Johnson reports from the front lines of the AIDS epidemic, from Burning Man, from monasteries near and far. His subject matter ranges from Oscar Wilde to censorship in journalism to Kentucky basketball.
Everywhere Home is the latest title in Sarabande’s Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature.
Fenton Johnson is the author of the novels The Man Who Loved Birds, Scissors, Paper, Rock, and Crossing the River, and the nonfiction books Keeping Faith and Geography of the Heart. Johnson has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He writes regularly for Harper’s, and is a professor in the creative writing programs at the University of Arizona and Spalding University.
Table of Content
Table of Contents
Reader’s Note
Prologue
On Fire
Part 1
North of the South, West of the West
Catholic in the South
Father to the Mother
Basketball Days
After Shock in San Francisco
Part II
Journals of the Plague Years
The Limitless Heart
Lucky Fellows
Death into Life
The Secret Decoder Ring Society
All That Is Human Is Mine
Safe(r) Sex
Invitation to the Dance
City of Innocence and Plague
From the Depths: Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis in its Second Century
Part III
Power and Obedience: Restoring Pacifism to American Politics
In Between: Fiction Writer as Drag Queen
Ordinary Acts
God, Gays, and the Geography of Desire
Beyond Belief
Part IV
Witness and Storyteller
Shrines and Wonders
Reverence and Irony: On Beauty and the Sublime
Dreamers and Fools: Burning Man
Epilogue
Light in August
Acknowledgments
Publication Acknowledgments
About the author
Fenton Johnson is the author of the novels The Man Who Loved Birds, Scissors, Paper, Rock, and Crossing the River, and the nonfiction books Keeping Faith and Geography of the Heart. Johnson has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He writes regularly for Harper’s Magazine, and is a professor in the creative writing programs at the University of Arizona and Spalding University.
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