“Kenny Fries writes out of the pure hot emergency of a mortal being trying to keep himself alive. So much is at stake here—health, affection, culture, trauma, language—but its greatest surprise is what thrives in the midst of suffering. A beautiful book.”
—Paul Lisicky, author of The Narrow Door
NEW PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT: Disability Futures in the Arts
Join Kenny Fries on a three year, multi-project exploration of DISABILITY FUTURES IN THE ARTS as he collaborates with artists, scholars and activists, across mediums and continents. The first part — 15 essays in Wordgathering — is now online. Learn more >>
Video Project: What Happened Here in the Summer of 1940?
In a series of six interrelated short videos, Kenny Fries reads excerpts from his forthcoming book Stumbling over History: Disability and the Holocaust. The readings are supplemented by personal and historical photographs from his visits to the six Aktion T4 killing sites, where disabled people were mass murdered during the Third Reich.
1. Brandenburg an der Havel: The Behavior of the Delinquents
In the first video in the series, Kenny visits Brandenburg an der Havel, the site of the first “test killing” of disabled people in early 1940.
Works By Kenny
About Kenny
Kenny Fries received the prestigious Creative Capital literature grant for In the Province of the Gods. He is the author of Body, Remember: A Memoir and The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory, and the editor of Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out. He teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College.