Freeman's: Arrival: The Best New Writing on Arrival
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A new literary journal arrives on the scene with unpublished works from such superstars as Dave Eggers, Louise Erdrich, Haruki Murakami, and others. In this inaugural edition of Freeman’s, a new biannual of unpublished writing, former Granta editor and NBCC president John Freeman brings together the best new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about that electrifying moment when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. “A terrific anthology . . . Haruki Murakami, David Mitchell and a host of other lively writers let loose their imaginations in editor John Freeman’s first outing with a new literary journal that is sure to become a classic in years to come.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Reviews
Freeman’s Arrival is a beautiful collection of stories from diverse voices.You’ll be in awe and inspired by L. Davis’ story of how she taught herself Norwegian - without a dictionary; you’ll be entertained by T. Anam’s story of panty factory workers and their tales of marriage; you’ll tear up reading L. van de Berg’s story about a woman and her dying dog, and how she desperately tries to get a hold of her husband who has been sailing around the world; and you’ll laugh hysterically at E. Kerte’s story about getting high with a new driver during his first paid reading, the whole time, shaking your head, thinking, “no, he didn’t!!”Freeman’s Arrival has the familiar voices of L. Erdrich, H. Murakami, B. Lopez, A. Hemon etc. and new ones, such as F. Abbas, G. Cadogan, M. Salu, and I. Hutchinson. Reading Freeman’s is like attending a fabulous dinner party where everyone on the guest list has a brilliant story to tell; where you are re-acquainted with writers that you already know and introduced to whole set of new writers you want to get to know more of.