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.
John Freeman on Granta.com
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Mo Yan | Interview
Mo Yan & John Freeman
‘My life is more current, more contemporary and the cutting throat cruelty of our contemporary times limits the romance that I once felt.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Victor LaValle | Interview
Victor LaValle & John Freeman
‘Our battle is between those trapped inside the institutions of modern American life (our economic and political systems in particular) and those who manipulate such institutions for their own profit.’
In Conversation | Issue 3
Salman Rushdie | Interview
Salman Rushdie & John Freeman
‘I'm not quite the same person as the ‘me’ about whom the book is written.’
In Conversation | Issue 3
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 | Issue 3
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.’
In Conversation | Issue 3
Ben Folds and Nick Hornby | Interview
Ben Folds, Nick Hornby & John Freeman
Ben Folds and Nick Hornby talk to John Freeman about literature, music and their new collaborative album.
In Conversation | Issue 3
Orhan Pamuk | Interview
Orhan Pamuk & John Freeman
‘Orhan Pamuk speaks to Granta editor John Freeman about his latest book, The Museum of Innocence.’
In Conversation | Issue 3
Daniel Alarcón | Interview
Daniel Alarcón & John Freeman
‘Granta editor John Freeman interviews Daniel Alarcón about book piracy in Peru.’
In Conversation | Issue 3
John Freeman | Interview
John Freeman & Roy Robins
‘I think you know right away if a piece of writing is good. Does it move me? Does it have intensity? Is it beautiful?’