John Freeman

Literature Prize launches as $60,000 Folio Prize

2013-03-13 12:10:00

It's a big day for prize announcements: The Literature Prize announced its formation and sponsor Wednesday at a news conference at the British Library in London. The idea for the prize came into being when a group of British intellectuals took umbrage...

Poet Kay Ryan among the geniuses

2011-09-20 16:35:09

On Friday, Granta brings Pakistan to L.A.

2010-10-29 21:33:50

The Story Prize announces its 2010 finalists

2011-01-10 16:34:06

Report on the Brooklyn Book Festival 2009

2009-09-17 08:53:49

Margaret Atwood's apocalyptic humor

2009-09-27 16:33:24

Don't send that e-mail, a writer suggests

2009-11-08 00:00:00

John Freeman, a longtime book critic who recently became the editor of the literary magazine Granta, has written a new book called "The Tyranny of E-Mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox" (Simon & Schuster: 256 pp., $25). He's conceived of...

‘The Best of It: New and Selected Poems’ by Kay Ryan

2010-04-25 00:00:00

Book review: ‘The Best of It: New and Selected Poems' by Kay Ryan The Best of It New and Selected Poems Kay Ryan Grove: 270 pp., $24 Contemporary poetry is a bit like visual art. Much of it makes you grab your chin and nod in stumped...

'The Year of the Flood' by Margaret Atwood

2009-09-27 00:00:00

The Year of the Flood A Novel Margaret Atwood Nan A. Talese/Doubleday: 434 pp., $26.95 Lady Oracle has been quiet the last six years. Yes, there have been half a dozen books, an opera even. But no novels, and it is in her novels that Margaret Atwood...

'My Father's Tears' and 'Endpoint' by John Updike

2009-06-07 00:00:00

My Father's Tears And Other Stories John Updike Alfred A. Knopf: 292 pp., $25.95 Endpoint And Other Poems John Updike Alfred A. Knopf: 98 pp., $25 Of course he was going to write until the end. Several million words, 60-plus books. No American of...

D.A. Powell wins $100,000 prize for poetry

2010-02-02 16:32:47

'Chronic,' by D.A. Powell

2009-02-15 00:00:00

Chronic Poems D.A. Powell Graywolf: 78 pp., $20 There are poets who show us the exterior world and poets who ferry news of their inner turmoil. Yet very few possess the double vision required to do both. Sylvia Plath surveyed and stoked the fires...

Leonard Hollander, center, the chef at Marion Street Cheese Market in Oak Park, works with chefs John Freeman, left, and Sat Bains at Restaurant Sat Bains in Nottingham, England.

2013-04-01 15:22:00

John Freeman runs the large coal grill at Boog's BBQ at Camden Yards , which on a 100 degree day adds many more degrees of heat. He ties to stay cool by drinking water, towling off and sneaking trips to the air conditioned bathrooms when he can.

2010-07-06 00:00:00