Ed Park

New York

Graphic Novel Columnist at The New York Times

Articles

Author and editor Ed Park on focusing on the longer journey

Jan 16, 2025 | thecreativeindependent.com | Ed Park

Ed Park is the author of the forthcoming collection An Oral History of Atlantis and the novels Same Bed Different Dreams and , a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the , and , a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. He cofounded and has worked as a newspaper editor, movie reviewer, book editor, and writing professor. His fiction and essays have appeared in , and elsewhere. Born in Buffalo, he lives in Manhattan with his family.
Han Kang’s Transgressive Art

Oct 12, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Ed Park

“What a great day for Korea!” my mom wrote to me on Thursday. “Nobel for Han Kang!”For the past few decades, several South Korean authors have been bruited about as contenders for the Nobel Prize in Literature, notably the poet Ko Un and the novelist Hwang Sok-yong, elder statesmen who were both previously jailed for political activism. As an American-born writer of Korean ancestry, I liked these authors in theory, but their actual work didn’t jump off the page for me, an English-only reader.
Nuance and Nuisance

Sep 16, 2024 | harpers.org | Ed Park

Discussed in this essay:The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture, by Tricia Romano. PublicAffairs. 608 pages. $35. At 7:32 pm on Wednesday, July 1, 1998, my co-worker Ron sent me a message over ATEX, the editing system we used at the Village Voice:if you ever work here late at night, when there aren’t many people around, you will notice tiny little bugs flying around . . . they come out of the walls . . .
Sea Change | Lewis H. Lapham

Jul 24, 2024 | laphamsquarterly.org | Simon Winchester |Ed Park

The ocean is an object of no small terror. Indeed, terror is in all cases whatsoever, either more openly or latently, the ruling principle of the sublime. —Edmund BurkeIn heavy fog on the night of October 7, 1936, the SS Ohioan ran aground three miles south and west of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, and by noon on October 8, I was among a crowd of spectators come to pay its respects to the no small terror of the sea.
The 2024 Pulitzer Prizes are here

May 9, 2024 | audible.com | Jayne Phillips |Ed Park |Yiyun Li |Ilyon Woo

Finalist: Memoir or AutobiographyWritten and narrated by Jonathan Rosen. When his family moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen found a new best friend—and keen competitor—in Michael Laudor. Both children of college professors, the boys became inseparable, and, when they both got into Yale, seemed set to join the American meritocratic elite.
Machine City | Ed Park

Apr 1, 2024 | thebaffler.com | Ed Park |A. S. Hamrah |Libby Watson

I’m not an actor, but I was in a movie once. Bethany Blanket cast me in her student project my sophomore year at Yale. In one scene, I was made up to look old, with a wrinkled brow and a wig streaked white with talc. This morning, in the elevator at work, I saw that face again. A devastating start to the day. Machine City was a half-hour two-hander. It screened the weekend before winter break, at an unheated auditorium in the law school. You could see your breath.
Gabriel Bump and Ed Park Compare Notes on Their New Novels

Dec 20, 2023 | interviewmagazine.com | Ed Park |Jake Nevins

Gabriel Bump’s sophomore novel The New Naturalsis a book about a utopia that doesn’t fully deal with utopia: mourning the loss of her newborn child, Rio, a young Black woman living in Western Massachusetts comes across an abandoned restaurant just off the highway. She becomes fixated on the idea of a safe haven, an equitable world that would grant anyone love, acceptance and opportunity and an honest education in history.
When History Doesn’t Do What We Wish It Would

Dec 15, 2023 | newyorkfolk.com | James White |Ed Park

In his 1961 book, What Is History?, the British historian E. H. Carr sought to answer that very question. Carr argued that history is a perpetual dialogue between the past and the present, that it is never neutral or objective. Ed Park has a slightly more idiosyncratic way of putting it in his new novel, Same Bed Different Dreams, but he essentially lands in the same place.
Ed Park by David Gordon

Dec 6, 2023 | bombmagazine.org | Ed Park |Suha Traboulsi

Ed Park is best known as the author of the novel PersonalDays (2008), as well as the cofounder of The Believer and afrequent contributor to the New Yorker and New York Review ofBooks, but that barely scratches the surface. Among other roles,he edited the Poetry Foundation website, wrote a sci-fi columnfor the Los Angeles Times, and reviewed graphic novels for theNew York Times.
5 Must-Read Contemporary Literary Fiction Novels

Nov 10, 2023 | newinbooks.com | Joe Wirth |Sigrid Nunez |Ed Park |Joshua S. Narins

in Books to Read if You Like..., eBook, Literary Fiction, News 5 Must-Read Contemporary Literary Fiction NovelsLooking for some seriously good reads? Check out these five contemporary literary fiction novels that’ll hook you from page one. With stories that feel as real as your favorite coffee shop, these books bring modern life to the forefront. Get ready for characters you’ll love and narratives that’ll make you think. by Joshua S.