Freeman's: Home
The Best New Writing on Home
1st Edition
Published on 26. February 2020
112 pages
978-0-8021-8949-3 (ISBN)
Description
"A superb anthology" on the theme of sanctuary with original work by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Edwidge Danticat, Aleksandar Hemon and more (
Kirkus Reviews).
The third literary anthology in the series that has been called "ambitious" ( O Magazine) and "strikingly international" ( Boston Globe), Freeman's: Home, continues to push boundaries in diversity and scope, with stunning new pieces from emerging writers and literary luminaries alike, including in this edition Leila Aboulela, Barry Lopez, Amira Hass, Emily Raboteau, Kjell Askildsen, and many others.
"This edition of Freeman'smanages to do what the world off the page cannot: provide a place where diversity can safely reside. A sanctuary for stories...Home is often the stories of others. Let these poems, shorts and stories guide you to what is your home."- Literary Hub
The third literary anthology in the series that has been called "ambitious" ( O Magazine) and "strikingly international" ( Boston Globe), Freeman's: Home, continues to push boundaries in diversity and scope, with stunning new pieces from emerging writers and literary luminaries alike, including in this edition Leila Aboulela, Barry Lopez, Amira Hass, Emily Raboteau, Kjell Askildsen, and many others.
"This edition of Freeman'smanages to do what the world off the page cannot: provide a place where diversity can safely reside. A sanctuary for stories...Home is often the stories of others. Let these poems, shorts and stories guide you to what is your home."- Literary Hub
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John Freeman was the editor of Granta until 2013. His books include How to Read a Novelist, Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times in Today's New York, and the forthcoming Tales of Two Americas: Stories from a Divided Country. Maps, his debut collection of poems, is out from Copper Canyon this fall. 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.
Content
- Intro
- Freeman's Home
- Previous Issues
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Six Shorts
- Vacationland
- Alipasino
- Fishermen Always Eat Fish Eyes First
- The Committed
- Hope and Home
- what was said on the bus stop
- Germany and Its Exiles
- All the Home You've Got
- A Land Without Borders
- Pages of Fruit
- Home, the Real Thing of an Image
- The San Joaquin
- What More Is There to Say?
- Stone Houses
- The Sound of Hemon
- A Natural
- Marine Boy
- The Curse
- Being Here
- #21
- The Red House
- E. A hymn bracing for the end
- On Winning the Melbourne Prize, 11 November 2009
- Contributor Notes
- About the Editor
- Back Cover
