John Freeman
John Freeman is a writer and literary critic. A graduate of Swarthmore College, Freeman is the editor of Freeman’s, a literary biannual, and author of three books of nonfiction, “Dictionary of the Undoing,” “The Tyranny of E-mail,” and “How to Read a Novelist,” and a book of poetry, “Maps.” He has also edited two anthologies of writing on inequality, “Tales of Two Cities” and “Tales of Two Americas.” The former editor of Granta, he lives in New York, where he teaches at The New School and is writer-in-residence at New York University. The executive editor at LitHub, he has published poems in Zyzzyva, The New Yorker, Paris Review, and The Nation. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages.
2022 Festival events
- Publishing: Who Calls the Shots? (In-Person Only)- Conversation with Jokha Alharthi, International Booker Prize Winner (In-Person Only)
2019 Festival events
- Courage in Publishing in an Age of Political Polarization- Writer to Writer: Geir Gulliksen with John Freeman
- Horizon: Interview with Barry Lopez