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Like Cormac McCarthy, But Funny
Charles Portis, author of True Grit , got John Wayne his only Oscar. He once had Karl Marx’s old gig (as the London bureau chief for the New York Herald-Tribune ). He’s written four other novels, three of them masterpieces, though which three is up for debate. Here’s 7,000 words about a guy you’ve never heard of. But should, we say.
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Published December 27, 2016
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Ed Park
49 books36.2k followersI'm the author of the forthcoming story collection AN ORAL HISTORY OF ATLANTIS (July 2025)—preorder it now!
My novel SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS (2023) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction and the Asian Pacific American Award for Literature.
My debut novel, PERSONAL DAYS (2008), was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Asian American Literary Award, and the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize.
THREE TENSES, my memoir, will be out next year.
What else? I'm a founding editor of THE BELIEVER, and I've written for The Atlantic, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Bookforum, The Baffler, and many other places. (Check out ed-park.com or https://linktr.ee/edpark for some recent pieces.)
NB, I am *not* the author of THE WORLD OF THE OTTER, by the late nature writer Ed Park, but it's worth picking up if you see a copy (and like otters).
My novel SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS (2023) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction and the Asian Pacific American Award for Literature.
My debut novel, PERSONAL DAYS (2008), was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Asian American Literary Award, and the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize.
THREE TENSES, my memoir, will be out next year.
What else? I'm a founding editor of THE BELIEVER, and I've written for The Atlantic, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Bookforum, The Baffler, and many other places. (Check out ed-park.com or https://linktr.ee/edpark for some recent pieces.)
NB, I am *not* the author of THE WORLD OF THE OTTER, by the late nature writer Ed Park, but it's worth picking up if you see a copy (and like otters).
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February 25, 2025
NB This is an article I wrote - a long appreciation of the great Charles Portis - rather than a “book.” Not sure audio is the best way to experience it. (I was not the reader.) It’s been anthologized a couple times (in READ HARD and ESCAPE VELOCITY), and can also be found on the Believer’s website.
January 22, 2022
This reminds me of why I stopped reading literary analysis years ago. This dry and dull rambling bit of enthusiasm for Charles Porter did little recommend Mr. Porter's fiction, and was, like so many pieces like it, confusing.
The narrator's droning and robotic delivery didn't help. Ugh.
The narrator's droning and robotic delivery didn't help. Ugh.
December 9, 2023
#LikeCormacMcCarthyButFunnier by #EdPark Book #89 of the year 2023
What did I just read? It's not even a novella. Some sort of discussion about books? Authors? Not funny. The author presumed everyone listening to this audiobook would know all about what he was talking about. No. Disappointed.
What did I just read? It's not even a novella. Some sort of discussion about books? Authors? Not funny. The author presumed everyone listening to this audiobook would know all about what he was talking about. No. Disappointed.
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