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Ed Park

Ed Park is the author of the novel Personal Days. He was a founding editor of The Believer, the literary editor of The Village Voice, and an editor at Penguin Press. His stories and articles have appeared in The New Yorker, Bookforum, The New York Review of Books, and Harper's.

He wrote a science-fiction column for the Los Angeles Times and a comics column for The New York Times. He lives in Manhattan with his family.

Awards: LA Times (2023) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction, Mystery

New and upcoming books

July 2025

An Oral History of Atlantis

Novels

Personal Days (2008)
Same Bed Different Dreams (2023)

Collections

An Oral History of Atlantis (2025)

Series contributed to

Akashic Noir
Buffalo Noir (2013) (with Brigid Hughes)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Ed Park

At Home in the Dark (2019)
edited by
Lawrence Block

Dark City Lights (2015)
New York Stories
edited by
Lawrence Block

Buffalo Noir (2013)
(Akashic Noir)
edited by
Brigid Hughes and Ed Park

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Awards

2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction : Same Bed Different Dreams

Award nominations

	2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (nominee) : Same Bed Different Dreams
	2024 ALA Notable Books for Adults (nominee) : Same Bed Different Dreams
	2009 PEN/Hemingway Award (nominee) : Personal Days

Ed Park recommends

Sky Daddy (2025)
Kate Folk
"Sky Daddy is outrageously funny and smartly unsettling . . . also probably the worst (or . . . best?) book to read on a plane."

My Documents (2025)
Kevin Nguyen
"With relatable characters and abundant wit, Nguyen draws us into his state-of-the-art labyrinth, the startling sum of our Asian American fears. You'll never think of the acronym AAPI the same way again."

Supersonic (2025)
Thomas Kohnstamm
"The Great Seattle novel has arrived."

Brat (2024)
Gabriel Smith
"Messy with glitched realities and body horror, Brat breathes the same thrillingly claustrophobic air as Inland Empire and Ubik. It's a skin-shedding ouroboros of grief and laughter, and the most brain-melting British debut I've read in ages."

The Morningside (2024)
Téa Obreht
"Imagine a Ballardian dystopia injected with a double dose of magic realism, so that the pages seem to glow. . . . An ideal novel in which all is invented and everything is true. I loved it."

The Liberators (2023)
E J Koh
"A piercing, patient debut by one of our finest chroniclers of American han. You won't know what hit you until the final, perfect image."

Pay as You Go (2023)
Eskor David Johnson
"A wondrous mock epic, dreamlike yet jaunty, the likes of which we haven't seen in a long time. [...] Johnson's gift for pure invention is downright Garcia Marquezian, and Polis is his rambunctious Macondo, a place readers will want to visit again and again."

The Dog of the North (2023)
Elizabeth McKenzie
"Sometimes the modern world seems like an inescapable hellscape. Then I remember that Elizabeth McKenzie is writing novels, and I feel better again. The Dog of the North is exactly as much fun as The Big Lebowski or one of Charles Portis's comic jaunts, filled with dialogue so fun you'll want to say it aloud and a blissful parade American eccentrics. Trust me - there's a guy who tries to invent something called Steak in a Trout."

Joan is Okay (2022)
Weike Wang
"This is an Asian American novel like no other, set in the heart of the pandemic, in the city I call home. Joan is my hero."

Lurkers (2021)
Sandi Tan
"I loved Shirkers and I now love Lurkers . . . Briskly entertaining and genuinely funny, there's something funny or weird or crushing on practically every page."

If I Had Your Face (2020)
Frances Cha
"Few American novelists know Seoul the way Frances Cha does and in her intimate, panoramic debut, she brings that dazzling city to life. There are voices here you haven’t heard before. . . . An enthralling read from the very first page."

Severance (2018)
Ling Ma
"My autocorrect keeps putting ‘King’ Ma instead of Ling Ma, but maybe that’s on the mark: she totally rules. Severance is like nothing else around: a witty workplace novel and a terrifying plague yarn, an immigrant story and a sort of homecoming, full of Chinese whispers and New York ghosts."

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