The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story - John Freeman

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.