John Freeman
John Freeman is the founder of the literary annual Freeman’s and an executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. He is also the author and editor of eleven books, including Dictionary of the Undoing; There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love (co-edited with Tracy K Smith), and Wind, Trees, a new collection of poems. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and been translated into more than twenty languages. Once a month he hosts The California Book Club, an online discussion of a classic book of golden state literature for Alta magazine. He lives in New York City.
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In Conversation | The Online Edition
David Guterson | Interview
David Guterson & John Freeman
‘Hubris, power, sex, ambition, frailty, pathos, descent, castigation: there but for the grace of gods go I, and as long as it isn’t me, great!’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Marcelo Ferroni | Interview
Marcelo Ferroni & John Freeman
‘There’s a vibrant new generation of writers, trying to do something very different with Brazilian literature.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Paolo Zaninoni | Interview
Paolo Zaninoni & John Freeman
‘After almost three years of economic recession and youth unemployment estimated at around twenty per cent, it is fair to say that Italian attitudes towards work have become more serious.’