Freeman's arrival / edited by John Freeman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freeman, John, 1974- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--21st century.

Literature, Modern.

Fiction--21st century.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

304 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Arrival

Freeman's the best new writing on arrival

Place of Publication:

New York : Grove Press, [2015]

Summary:

"We live today in constant motion, traveling distances rapidly, small ones daily, arriving in new states. In this inaugural edition of Freeman's, a new biannual of unpublished writing, former Granta editor and NBCC president John Freeman brings together the best new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about that electrifying moment when we arrive. Strange encounters abound. David Mitchell meets a ghost in Hiroshima Prefecture; Lydia Davis recounts her travels in the exotic territory of the Norwegian language; and in a Dave Eggers story, an elderly gentleman cannot remember why he brought a fork to a wedding. End points often turn out to be new beginnings. Louise Erdrich visits a Native American cemetery that celebrates the next journey, and in a Haruki Murakami story, an aging actor arrives back in his true self after performing a role, discovering he has changed, becoming a new person. Featuring startling new fiction by Laura van den Berg, Helen Simpson, and Tahmima Anam, as well as stirring essays by Aleksandar Hemon, Barry Lopez, and Garnette Cadogan, who relearned how to walk while being black upon arriving in NYC, Freeman's announces the arrival of an essential map to the best new writing in the world.

Contents:

Six shorts / Louise Erdrich; Kamila Shamsie; Sjon; Colum McCann; David Mitchell; Daniel Galera

Drive my car / Haruki Murakami

In search of space lost / Aleksandar Hemon

When this happens / Ghassan Zaqtan

Mellow / Etgar Keret

Sappho drives upstate (fr.2) / Anne Carson

Garments / Tahmima Anam

Arizona / Helen Simpson

Windfall / Ishion Hutchinson

Black and blue / Garnette Cadogan

The dog / Laura van den Berg

The lsat road north / Barry Lopez; Ben Huff

On a morning / Fatin Abbas

The nod / Michael Salu

The mogul gardens new Mah, 1962 / Honor Moore

The fork / Dave Eggers

On learning Norwegian / Lydia Davis.

Notes:

"Est. 2015"

"Published in collaboration with the MFA in Creative Writing at The New School."--Title page verso.

ISBN:

0802124410

9780802124418

1611855411

9781611855418

OCLC:

904813632