John Freeman is the author of How to Read a Novelist, Tales of Two Cities, and the forthcoming Tales of Two Americas. Maps, his debut collection of poems, will be published by Copper Canyon in October. He is executive editor at the Literary Hub and teaches at the New School and New York University. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times and the Paris Review and been translated into more than twenty languages.

‘Think about the last time you read a novel in which someone went to cash a benefit check or paid for food in food stamps.’ An interview with John Freeman for Guernica

Read an interivew with John Freeman in Asymptote Journal. 

Profile of John Freeman in Mr Porter

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