Freeman’s: The Best New Writing on Arrival

Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Book of My Lives, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and three books of short stories, including Nowhere Man, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Genius Grant from the MacArthur Foundation. An aspiring screenwriter ends up on a seriously funny roller-coaster ride of sex and violence, in Hemon's novel The Making of Zombie Wars (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). In its starred review, Booklist writes, “Zestfully funny in his skewering of hypocrisy and pretension and warmly insightful regarding family, friendship, lust, and love, Hemon astutely ties it all together.”

Garnette Cadogan has written about culture and the arts for various publications. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, where he is working on a book on walking.

Honor Moore’s most recent book is The Bishop’s Daughter, a memoir, is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year and her most recent collection of poems is Red Shoes.  Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, The Paris Review, the American Scholar, Salmagundi, the New Republic, Freeman’s and many other journals and anthologies.  For the Library of America, she edited Amy Lowell: Selected Poems and Poems from the Women’s Movement, an Oprah summer readings pick which is featured in the current documentary about American feminism, “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry.”  She has been poet in residence at Wesleyan and the University of Richmond, visiting professor at the Columbia School of the Arts and three times the Visiting Distinguished Writer in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. The White Blackbird, A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter, published in 1996 and just reissued, was a New York Times Notable Book.

John Freeman a writer and a literary critic. He was the editor of the literary magazine Granta until 2013, the former president of the National Book Critics Circle, and his writing has appeared in almost 200 English-language publications around the world, including the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal. His books include The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand Year Journey to Your Inbox, How to Read a Novelist, and Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times in Today's New York. Freeman will edit a series of anthologies of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry entitled Freeman's, published in partnership with Grove/Atlantic and The New School.