John Freeman

John Freeman is the editor of Freeman's, a literary annual of new writing, and executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. His books include "Dictionary of the Undoing," "How to Read a Novelist" and "The Tyranny of E-mail," as well as several anthologies about inequality, and "There's a Revolution Outside, My Love," a book co-edited with Tracy K. Smith about living in an American riven by racial violence. "Maps," his debut collection of poems, was published in 2017, followed by "The Park" and "Wind, Trees." He has also edited The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has appeared in "The New Yorker," "The Paris Review," and "Alta Magazine," for whom he hosts the California Book Club once a month. His latest book is "Sacramento Noir," an anthology of crime writing set in his native Sacramento.