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“This book’s topic is critically important, and every student at WSU should have the opportunity to join the 36 contemporary writers in examining life in a deeply divided America” — TALES OF TWO AMERICAS selected as Washington State University’s Common Reading book

Tuesday, April 13th, 2021

“The Washington State University Common Reading Program has announced the 2021-22 book to be used by first-year and other students in classes and beyond is Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, edited by John Freeman.”

Read the announcement here.

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“This book’s topic is critically important, and every student at WSU should have the opportunity to join the 36 contemporary writers in examining life in a deeply divided America” — TALES OF TWO AMERICAS selected as Washington State University’s Common Reading book

“What writers, fiction or non, are especially good on class and money?” — TALES OF TWO AMERICAS recommended by Jess Walter in the New York Times

“The evidence of this collection is that America is indeed broken, and has been broken for a very long time.” Counterfire on TALES OF TWO AMERICAS

JOHN FREEMAN is profiled in the LA Times

“These stories provide an urgent insight into how we have got to the situation we’re now in.” TALES OF TWO AMERICAS is reviewed in The Canary

The Morning Star calls TALES OF TWO AMERICAS “a brilliant opportunity to discover new writers who have a deep concern for the wider social and political world.”

Tears in the Fence calls TALES OF TWO AMERICAS “an important and nuanced anthology”

RU FREEMAN‘s story “Fault Lines,” from TALES OF TWO AMERICAS, is excerpted at Dissent

Salon calls TALES OF TWO AMERICAS “a brilliant anthology on inequality”