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Freeman Smith, aka Dan Freeman is an American-born artist and writer. He lives, travels, observes, and writes about America. He enjoys attending music festivals, local zoning hearings, and vaguely - if at all - sanctioned, suburban, underground, neighbor-against-neighbor, MMA events with his rescue dog, Eddie VH. He’s played basketball in Rucker Park and at the Aspen Meadows Resort. He can intuit a person’s entire belief system based on their views of the NBA and confirm the competition was much better at the Ruck than at the Aspen resort.

A near-famous, former film actor, he’s lived in Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and New York City. He especially likes the literature of Irvine Welsh, Thomas McGuane, Tom Wolfe, the Beat p Freeman Smith, aka Dan Freeman is an American-born artist and writer. He lives, travels, observes, and writes about America. He enjoys attending music festivals, local zoning hearings, and vaguely - if at all - sanctioned, suburban, underground, neighbor-against-neighbor, MMA events with his rescue dog, Eddie VH. He’s played basketball in Rucker Park and at the Aspen Meadows Resort. He can intuit a person’s entire belief system based on their views of the NBA and confirm the competition was much better at the Ruck than at the Aspen resort.

A near-famous, former film actor, he’s lived in Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and New York City. He especially likes the literature of Irvine Welsh, Thomas McGuane, Tom Wolfe, the Beat poets, Flannery O’Connor, and Charles Bukowski. He is the co-founder and co-owner of Denver's first all-fiction literary magazine.

He once read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" aloud to his wife as she lifted weights. He married his wife because she too owned a copy of "The Age of Voltaire," a 973-page, 3.1-pound book. They were both buying their literature by the pound then in that pre-Twitter era. One summer, they bought two large speakers from a guy named Tom at a Guitar Center and played operas through the speakers at full volume to the neighborhood every Sunday afternoon mistaking their anger for enthusiasm. But they were young, damn it. Have you not been young?

He’s authored books under different names over the years and has placed many of his stories in random books at libraries across the land. But now he’s finally sold out to the literature world as "Society, Suspicious" can be purchased in retail stores worldwide including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Walmart and several other outlets he’s never heard of before. "Society, Suspicious" is being translated into numerous languages including Danish. "Nyd jer heldige mennesker!" which is Danish for: “Enjoy, you lucky people!” Oh, and he has a website too: www.freemansmith.com. You should check it out to learn more about this book in case you need more convincing. And as always, check out atmospherepress.com for other amazing books by some of the world's most interesting writers.

Clearly, Freeman Smith, aka Dan Freeman is in the big leagues now.

As he says often when discussing his writing or talking about writing when he is writing, “Shakespeare? Who's he? I say, Shakespeare, Who's he, now?” ...more

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Society, Suspicious is a brilliant, ruckusy ride careening through the hellscape of American culture and politics. Jim Morrison is driving this bus—yes, he's alive and living in Tacoma jamming to Journey—and he's not always the most reliable narrator, but it's with this mind-bending that Free Read more of this blog post »

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