John Freeman was the editor of Granta until 2013. His books include How to Read a Novelist and Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times in Today’s New York. He is executive editor at 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.

‘Think about the last time you read a novel in which someone went to cash a benefit check or paid for food in food stamps.’ An interview with John Freeman for Guernica

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