John Freeman
John Freeman is the editor of Freeman’s, a literary annual of new writing. His books include How to Read a Novelist and The Tyranny of E-mail, as well as Tales of Two Americas, an anthology of new writing about inequality in the U.S. today. Maps, his debut collection of poems, was published in 2017. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, andThe New York Times. The former editor of Granta and one-time president of the National Book Critics Circle, he is currently Artist-in-Residence at New York University.
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Dictionary of the Undoing
- By: John Freeman
- Narrator: Jean Ann Douglass
- Length: 4 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: December 03, 2019
- Language: English
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This program is read by the author.
For John Freeman–literary critic, essayist, editor, poet, “one of the preeminent book people of our time” (Dave Eggers)–it is the rare moment when words are not enough. But in the wake of... Read more
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