JOHN FREEMAN is an award-winning writer and book critic who has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal. Freeman won the 2007 James Patterson PageTurner Award. He is the editor-in-chief of Granta and lives in New York City.
"[A] thoughtful and provocative book."--Seattle Times
"A book with a title this bold and provocative . . . requires an
airtight and compelling case to back it up. To keep us reading, the
book must also inform and entertain. John Freeman . . . delivers on
all counts."--The Oregonian
"An elegant self-help book. . . . Freeman uses lush prose and
invokes examples from great literature to make his points. He comes
at things not from a giddy utopian perspective that permeates most
writing about technology but from a humanist one. It makes the book
refreshing and powerful."--Boston Globe
"E-mail is eating us alive . . . Luckily for us [John Freeman] has
a solution."--Chicago Tribune
"Freeman offers up fascinating trivia . . . [and] makes a
persuasive case that e-mail has at once corroded epistolary
communication and strangled workplace productivity."--The New
Yorker
"We live in a culture devoted to technology, and yet most of us
cannot find the time to consider its history or its consequences.
John Freeman has made the time, and has thought carefully about how
we have gotten here.... Freeman knows his history, and he offers an
engaging account of the evolution of correspondence."--Bookforum
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