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Listen to Kenny Fries's "Live from Prairie Lights" reading.
Read The Progressive's review of Kenny Fries's new book here.
The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory wins the 2007 Myers Outstanding Book Award, visit myerscenter.org.
Read The Disability History Association's review here.
The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory wins the 2007 Myers Outstanding Book Award, visit myerscenter.org.
Read The Disability History Association's review of Kenny Fries's new book here.
Read In These Times's review here.
Read Kenny Fries's Op-Ed, "Running Outside of His Lane", in The Washington Post.
Listen to WFCR's Bob Paquette interview Kenny Fries on his new book here.
Read The Washington Blade's review here.
New Praise for The History of My Shoes
"An irresistible title; I did not resist. I read this book with great pleasure, delighted by the unexpected yet perfectly apt conjunctions, by the grace and economy with which the episodes from Darwin’s life and key concepts of his work are transposed into a ‘natural history’ of the self with a poet’s sense of the telling detail." —Andrea Barrett, author of Ship Fever and Servants of the Map
"An unusual historian, Fries wears the story of his life on his feet in specially constructed orthopedic shoes ... In Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace, Fries recognizes a pair of intellectual adventurers whose research—now in isolation, now in concert, now in conflict—illuminates his own quest to adapt to an ever-shifting environment ... " — Booklist
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