{"product_id":"an-oral-history-of-atlantis-stories-9780812998993","title":"An Oral History of Atlantis: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eGilt-edged stories that slice clean through the mundanity of modern life, from the author of \u003ci\u003eSame Bed Different Dreams, \u003c\/i\u003e a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Ed Park is one of the funniest writers working today, and among the most humane.\"--Kaveh Akbar, author of \u003ci\u003eMartyr!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"Machine City\" a college student's chance role in a friend's movie blurs the line between his character and his true self. (Is he a robot?) In \"Slide to Unlock\" a man comes to terms with his life via the passwords he struggles to remember in extremis. (What's his mom's name backward?) And in \"Weird Menace\" a director and faded movie star gab about science fiction, bad costume choices, and lost loves on a commentary track for a B-film from the '80s that neither remembers all that well. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Ed Park's utterly original collection, \u003ci\u003eAn Oral History of Atlantis, \u003c\/i\u003echaracters bemoan their fleeting youth, focus on their breathing, meet cute, break up, write book reviews, translate ancient glyphs, bid on stuff online, whale watch, and once in a while find solace in the sublime. Throughout, Park deploys his trademark wit to create a world both strikingly recognizable and delightfully other. Spanning a quarter century, these sixteen stories tell the absurd truth about our lives. They capture the moment when the present becomes the past--and are proof positive that Ed Park is one of the most imaginative and insightful writers working today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEd Park\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eSame Bed Different Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, won the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize for Fiction, was named a Top Ten Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e and was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book; and \u003ci\u003ePersonal Days\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the PEN\/Hemingway Award. His short fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Vice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and other periodicals and anthologies, and he writes regularly for\u003ci\u003e The New York Review of Books, Harper's, The Atlantic, Bookforum, \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere. Ed was a founding editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e and the former literary editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Voice Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, and has also worked in publishing. Born in Buffalo, he lives in Manhattan with his family, and currently teaches writing at Princeton University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51501143687442,"sku":"9780812998993","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c223a565-d8e2-4041-bffb-71e1c4e57cff.jpg?v=1753208344","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/an-oral-history-of-atlantis-stories-9780812998993","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}