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elisa_rolle

The Inside Reader: Fenton Johnson

Jul 16, 2010 12:29

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends - Silas Weir Mitchell
I have already said it in the past, sometime I think my LiveJournal is really too much a small thing for the honor to host such guests, I'd really like for these stunning lists and wonderful authors to have a wider window, but, well, they ( Read more... )

author: william james, author: mircea eliade, author: wendell berry, author: pierre hadot, author: peter brown, author: jared diamond, author: william shakespeare, author: toni morrison, author: george eliot, author: boethius, author: james baldwin, author: flannery o'connor, author: denis de rougemont, author: fenton johnson, author: rainer maria rilke, author: gustave flaubert, author: evan s. connell, author: heinrich zimmer, author: fyodor dostoyevsky, author: marcus aurelius, author: vincent scully, the inside reader, author: anton chekhov

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maximvanziel July 17 2010, 10:38:56 UTC

Shame on me, I didn't know anything about him! He sounds a great person and must be a soul mate of mine :D
Thank you!!!

elisa_rolle July 17 2010, 10:44:40 UTC

Geography Of The Heart is a classic of love during the AIDS years. I found about Fenton Johnson thanks to K.M. Soehnlein, who, if I remember well, was also Fenton's student.

sarahblack5 July 17 2010, 14:09:49 UTC

this looks like a wonderful reading list- thanks, E, for introducing me to someone I haven't read yet, but will probably fall in love with- I really like these interviews, by the way. I always look forward to them-

elisa_rolle July 17 2010, 14:13:28 UTC

I, like you, consider this serial the best part of this journal.

lousy_science July 18 2010, 22:03:58 UTC

Fabulous list from a fantastic writer, thank you.

elisa_rolle July 18 2010, 22:41:17 UTC

I think so myself :-)