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SUMMARY:Pop-up: Ed Park
DESCRIPTION:Ed Park reads from his new memoir Three Tenses: A Transmission from the Nineties at Portland Art Museum in the Northwest Art gallery (Level 3\, Room 301)\, paired with Mary Henry\, La Vida Bréve. \nAbout Three Tenses:\nAn elegant\, iridescent mosaic of autobiographical fragments\, both real and invented\, forming a portrait of a creative life\, from the life of the Pulitzer Prize finalist for Same Bed Different Dreams. \nIn 1998\, Ed Park wrote a memoir and saved it to the vanishing technology of the floppy disk\, losing it for more than twenty years. Until one day\, emptying out an old\, unmarked box in his family’s cramped New York City home\, he came across a hefty manila folder. Out slid the only remaining copy of Three Tenses. \nThe piece of writing that Park found—“a voice lesson\, a language experiment\, an autobiography with lies\, a document of sustained artistic bliss of a sort that I have never found again”—was an assemblage of beguiling anecdotes\, sly observations\, and collected esoterica\, produced within the confines of the shoebox apartment of his twenties and only now allowed to see the light of day. Two Ed Parks emerge on the page: within the prose of the young\, struggling writer arises the voice of the artist he would become. \nProfound\, wily\, and beautifully wrought\, Three Tenses is a meeting of memory and myth\, confession and obfuscation\, coalescing to offer a singular picture of creativity in action.
URL:https://pdxbookfest.org/event/pop-up-ed-park/
LOCATION:Portland Art Museum: Main Building\, 1219 SW Park Ave\, Portland\, OR\, 97205
CATEGORIES:Nonfiction Events,Pop-up Events
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