Ed Park is the author of the novels Same Bed Different Dreams, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Personal Days, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award; and An Oral History of Atlantis, his debut story collection. His fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harper’s, The Atlantic, Bookforum, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. He is a founding editor of The Believer and the former literary editor of The Village Voice, and has worked in newspapers and book publishing. Born in Buffalo, Park lives in Manhattan with his family. He currently teaches writing at Princeton University. His latest book Three Tenses: A Transmission from the Nineties is out now.
Live Wire Radio, the Portland-based public radio variety show, joins forces with the Portland Art Museum for an afternoon of roving performances ahead of an evening recording of the program. The event coincides with PAM's monthly Free First Thursday and the Portland Book Festival's expanded programming.
Ed Park reads from his new memoir at Portland Art Museum in the Northwest Art gallery.
Both coming of age in the 90s, Ed Park and Alicia Jo Rabins come together to discuss their new memoirs exploring a shared through line of coming into your voice and identity as an artist while surrounded by many different influences. Moderated by OPB reporter, Lillian Karabaic.
