Freeman's

30/01/2024

Tonight in Manhattan at McNally Jackson Books seaport store, Linnea Axelsson is going to read and talk about her epic debut, AEDNAN, with the brilliant Nuar Alsadir. What a pairing, come on out at 6:30 for talk of animals, poetry, and remaking the epic in our time. Oh and wine too.

05/12/2023

12/6 In litchfield county CT! Our last event of the last issue

30/11/2023

The last event of the last Freeman's is Wednesday December 6 at 6 in the small town of Kent CT!

03/11/2023

Friday November 3rd at 6p at Broadway Books in Portland, OR, John Freeman will be joined by Debra Gwartney and Jane Hirshfield as part of a Literary Arts Portland Book Festival event honoring Barry Lopez. We expect a crowd so come early!

https://www.broadwaybooks.net/event/evening-honoring-barry-

Barry Lopez

Broadway Books is open for business! Our store hours are Tuesday through Friday from 10 to 6, Saturday from 10 to 5, and Sunday from 11 to 5. The store is always closed on Mondays for pick up or in-store browsing, but you can call or shop online. 

02/11/2023

"I didn’t feel Palestinian. (A sensation that is not particular to that night: I don’t speak Arabic, my mother is Jewish, and I am American born and bred, so I have always felt disingenuous asserting belonging within such a tormented narrative.) But I did feel something as our descent hastened, as the view below dizzied and dazzled and tempted and sickened me. What I felt was that awful inclination that has always plagued me—not to Falestine—but to falling, a desire to fall, to no country but death’s country. L’appel du vide, the French call it. The call of the void."

Today, on Literary Hub, Hannah Lillith Assadi writes about her father and losing home.

November 2022 On the telephone from the hospital, my father tells me he wants a cigarette. He has fallen again. His once hearty frame is now so frail, I can hardly bear to look at him. The cancer i…

23/10/2023

Contributor Lana Bastasić ponders the meaning of never again in a Germany today via The Guardian

As a child, I saw what follows ethnic cleansing. That’s why I am speaking out about my new home’s silence over Palestinian deaths, says author Lana Bastašić

20/10/2023

John Freeman and Omar El Akkad on a Literary Magazine’s Final Issue In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan via Fiction/Non/Fiction at LitHub.

Poet, editor, and writer John Freeman and novelist Omar El Akkad join co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about the final issue of Freeman’s, a literary magazine founded in 201…

18/10/2023

You’ve probably noticed Freeman’s is not the only literary journal closing these days. John had some thoughts about what the ephemerality of journals means & makes possible and why Freeman’s was set up the way it was - essay over at Literary Hub

I’m reading a book about New York in the late 1970s and it begins with a perennial observation that you can live many lifetimes in the city due to the unsentimental way it demolishes the past. I ha…

18/10/2023

In this brief piece from the Freeman's issue on home, Adania Shibli describes what it is like to receive an IDF warning that the building she is in about to be bombed.

Translated from the Arabic by Wiam el-Tamami. To be clear, I don’t like mobile phones at all. But when my family and I arrived in Ramallah, a friend gave me one in case of emergencies. Even so, wh…

14/10/2023

Adania Shibli's novel MINOR DETAIL has won the 2023 LiBeraturpreis, a German literature prize, but an award ceremony set to honor it and give the author a forum to speak at the Frankfurt Book Fair, has been canceled. In light of this, and because it's a great book, we want to post this conversation she had with John Freeman from the summer of 2022, which occurred at Buybook in Sarajevo upon the publication of MINOR DETAIL in Bosnian. The interview begins at 15:00 in English.

Petak 08.07.2022.19:00ADANIA SHIBLI "Sporedan detalj"© 2022 BOOKSTAN All Rights Reserved

10/10/2023

The tenth and final installment of the literary journal Freeman’s explores all the ways of coming to an end...Featuring new work from Rebecca Makkai, Aleksandar Hemon, Rachel Khong, Louise Erdrich, and more!

Join John and contributors across the country and over the next three months (see list below), as they talk about love, family, arrival, animals, and endings. First US event is Wednesday 10/11 at McNally Jackson Books SEAPORT, featuring Chinelo Okparanta, Colum McCann, Kelsey Day, and Hannah Lillith Assadi.

30/09/2023

Wednesday October 11 at McNally Jackson Books, 7pm