We live today in constant motion, traveling distances rapidly, small ones daily, arriving in new states.
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..
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.
End points often turn out to be new beginnings.
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.
Strange encounters abound.
In this inaugural edition of Freeman\'s, a new biannual of unpublished writing, former Granta editor and NBCC president John Freeman brings together the Best new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about that electrifying moment when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.
We live today in constant motion, traveling distances rapidly, small ones daily, arriving in new states
