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John Freeman is an award-winning writer and book critic who has written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal. Freeman won the 2007 James Patterson Pageturner Award for his work as the president of the National Book Critics Circle, and was the editor of Granta from 2009 to 2013. He lives in New York City, where he teaches at NYU and edits a new literary biannual called Freeman's. ...more

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	Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation 3.77 avg rating — 1,702 ratings — published 2017 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story 3.98 avg rating — 590 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World 3.91 avg rating — 573 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Read a Novelist 3.69 avg rating — 378 ratings — published 2012 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Granta 112: Pakistan by John Freeman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Green Cardamom (Contributor), Declan Walsh (Contributor) 3.92 avg rating — 335 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times In Today's New York by John Freeman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Garnette Cadogan (Contributor), Bill Cheng (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.82 avg rating — 325 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Granta 117: Horror 3.55 avg rating — 308 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox 3.48 avg rating — 281 ratings — published 2010 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Granta 121: The Best of Young Brazilian Novelists 3.41 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Granta 123: The Best of Young British Novelists 4 by John Freeman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Steven Hall (Goodreads Author), Kamila Shamsie (Contributor) 3.68 avg rating — 222 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

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Monolithos: Poems, 1962 and 1982

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“True storytellers write not because they can but because they have to. There is something they want to say about the world that can only be said in a story.”
― John Freeman, How to Read a Novelist

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“I had never heard of the little Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid. And yet, that's where it all began. With an ordinary incident, one that happens frequently, but so frequently that it finally started something unstoppable.”
― John Freeman, Granta 116: Ten Years Later

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“About the question of whether it is a novel, he said that the project itself seemed like an interesting challenge: how to narrate factually and yet get “the lift of fiction.” After he said this, I thought about the word “lift,” since it seemed he was pointing out something that fiction might give and that nonfiction might not give.”
― John Freeman, Freeman's: Arrival

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