John Freeman is an editor and literary curator of the highest order, writer of astute cultural commentary, intrepid poet, and literary advocate whose voice is passionate and clear.
Freeman’s body of work includes two anthologies of writing by authors addressing todays social fissures of privilege and inequality in America: Tales of Two Americas (2017) and Tales of Two Cities (2015), the latter of which was hailed by Guernica as “a bristling portrayal of New York in the tradition of Jacob Riis.” Freeman’s authored books include How to Read a Novelist (2013)—a collection of 55 deeply informed and closely observed encounters with exceptional novelists, from Haruki Murakami to Edwidge Danticat to Jonathan Franzen—and The Tyranny of E-mail (2011), which considers the consequences of lives spent in an over-stimulated environment of media and communication saturation.
