Paul Holdengräber is joined by John Freeman on episode 190 of The Quarantine Tapes. John is an editor and writer and he talks to Paul about some of his most recent work, including the newly released There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love, an anthology edited by John and another former Quarantine Tapes guest, Tracy K. Smith.

John speaks movingly to the topics of collaboration and friendship. He discusses his influences and friendships with other writers, including Tracy and Barry Lopez. Paul and John go on to discuss John’s Dictionary of the Undoing, letter writing, utopia, and much more in a thoughtful and fascinating conversation.

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I Am Waiting, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Dusk, for Barry Lopez, by John Freeman, from Orion magazine.

John Freeman is the editor of Freeman's, a literary annual of new writing, and executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. His books include How to Read a Novelist and Dictionary of the Undoing, as well as Tales of Two Americas, an anthology about income inequality in America, and Tales of Two Planets, an anthology of new writing about inequality and the climate crisis globally. He is also the author of two poetry collections, Maps and The Park. His work is translated into more than twenty languages, and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The New York Times. The former editor of Granta, he teaches writing at New York University.