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This episode Adam is joined by John Freeman to bid farewell to his game-changing literary journal Freeman’s. They discuss the pleasures and challenges faced in setting up and running a magazine John’s editorial philosophy, some of his favourite events, and why the final issue’s theme of “Conclusions” offers up more surprising avenues than readers might expect. The episode also features readings from Sandra Cisneros, Aleksandar Hemon, Rebecca Makkai, and Mieko Kawakami read by translator Hitomi Yoshio
Buy Freeman’s Conclusions: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/freemans-conclusions
Featuring new work from Rebecca Makkai, Aleksandar Hemon, Louise Erdrich, Mieko Kawakami and more, the tenth and final instalment of the boundary-pushing literary journal Freeman's explores all the ways of coming to an end.
John Freeman was the editor of Granta until 2013. His books include Dictionary of the Undoing, How to Read a Novelist, Tales of Two Americas, and Tales of Two Planets. His poetry includes the collections Maps, The Park, and Wind, Trees. In 2021, he edited the anthologies There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love with Tracy K. Smith, and The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story. An executive editor at Knopf, he also hosts the California Book Club, a monthly online discussion of a new classic in Golden State literature for Alta magazine. His work has appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review and has been translated into twenty-two languages.
Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. His latest novel, Beasts of England, a sequel of sorts to Animal Farm, is available now. Buy a signed copy here: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/beasts-of-england
Listen to Alex Freiman’s latest EP, In The Beginning: https://open.spotify.com/album/5iZYPMCUnG7xiCtsFCBlVa?si=h5x3FK1URq6SwH9Kb_SO3w
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🛏️On Not Sleeping, with Marie Darrieussecq🛏️
🐖On Populism, Post-Truth, and Piggybacking George Orwell. Adam Biles in conversation with Rob Doyle.🐖
💎Sunday Poetry: Emilie Moorhouse reads from Emerald Wounds, her new translation of the poems of Joyce Mansour💎
🧠On Making Sense of a Murderer, with Mark O’Connell🧠
🗞️On Power, Pamphlets, Parties and Possible Worlds, with Adam Thirlwell🗞️
🪄On the KLF, Conspiracies, and Chaos with John Higgs🪄
Sunday Poetry: Nick Laird reads from Up Late
On Writing, Wormholes, and Wasted Opportunities, with Isabel Waidner
🏫On writing and translating The Topeka School, with Ben Lerner and Jakuta Alikavazovic🏫
🏇On Blood, Sweat and Racetracking, with Kathryn Scanlan🏇
BONUS: Lex Paulson on Cicero and the Future of Democracy
Hernan Diaz on his Pulitzer Prizewinning novel, Trust
Proust Questionnaire: Dolly Alderton!
Leïla Slimani on Inheritance, Hippies and the Literature of Disappointment
BONUS: Martin Amis in conversation with Will Self (2010)
On Anti-Memoir, the Weird, and New Kinds of Disaster, with M. John Harrison
On Unclassifiable Books and Uncategorisable Lives, with Xiaolu Guo
How Westminster Works . . . and Why it Doesn’t, with Ian Dunt
✖️On Art, Alternative Histories, and the Arbitrariness of Life with Catherine Lacey✖️
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