Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman launched the year’s most anticipated literary magazine, the biannual Freeman’s, in September 2015, making it a home for exceptional new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from both established and up-and-coming writers.

The former editor of the venerable British publication Granta and president of the National Book Critics Circle joins local novelist and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell in a public conversation about the new venture. They also discuss Freeman’s Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times in Today’s New York, an anthology of pieces by 30 major contemporary writers recently released in paperback.

The Writers at Work series is organized by Terrell, an assistant professor of English at UMKC, and co-sponsored by the Writers at Work Round Table and the UMKC English Department.