Freeman's arrival
By: edited by John Freeman
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781611855418
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Modern Literature; Fiction
Other titles: Arrival; Freeman's the best new writing on arrival
Description: "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 In this inaugural edition of Freeman's, a new biannual of unpublished writing, former Granta editor and NBCC president John Freeman brings together the best new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about that electrifying moment when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.
Notes: "Est. 2015"

"Published in collaboration with the MFA in Creative Writing at The New School."--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: Six shorts  -- Louise Erdich, Kamila Shamsie, Sjon, Colum McCann, David Mitchell, Daniel Galera; title: Drive my car  -- Haruki Murakami; title: In search of space lost  -- Alexsander Hemon; title: When this happens  -- Ghassan Zaqtan; title: Sappho drives upstate  -- Anne Carson; title: Garments  -- Tahmima Anam; title: Arizona  -- Helen Simpson; title: Windfall  -- Ishion Hutchinson; title: Black and blue  -- Garnette Cadogan; title: The dog  -- Laura van den Berg; title: The last road north  -- Barry Lopez & Ben Huff; title: On a morning  -- Fatin Abbas; title: The nod  -- Michael Salu; title: The Mogul Gardens near Mah, 1962  -- Honor Moore; title: The fork  -- Dave Eggers; title: On learning Norwegian -- Lydia Davis.