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JOHN FREEMAN GILL is the author of THE GARGOYLE HUNTERS, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection described by The New York Times as "marvelously evocative … exuberant … eye-opening … [an] urban Indiana Jones-like escapade."

John is a native New Yorker and former reporter for the New York Times City section. His work has been anthologized in The New York Times Book of New York and More New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of The New York Times. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Book World, The New York Observer, New York magazine, Premiere, Avenue, Guernica, Literary Hub, The New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere. A summa cum laude graduate of Yale Universit ...more

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THE GARGOYLE HUNTERS is "unabashedly charming," says The Washington Post

I'm hugely grateful to Ron Charles, editor of The Washington Post Book World, who gave THE GARGOYLE HUNTERS, my first novel, a wonderful, generous review:

‘The Gargoyle Hunters,’ by John Freeman Gill: A Love Letter to New York City

I know, I know — we need another novel about New York City the way New York City needs another skyscraper. But clear a little patch of ground for this unabashedly charmin Read more of this blog post »

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“Egg and dart?”
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“But disappearance isn’t the whole story, either, is it? Because however much we might mourn what the city is doing to itself, the damned place never fails to regenerate. It’s a snake that grows by swallowing its own tail. It’s a Möbius strip of self-annihilation and re-creation.”
― John Freeman Gill, The Gargoyle Hunters: A novel

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