Ed Park Book Reading and Reception
The Booksmith - 1644 Haight St (@ Clayton) San Francisco
Wed, June 18, 7 pm
Ed Park, (SOA '95), founding editor of McSweeney's The Believer magazine
and former books editor of The Village Voice will be reading from his new
novel, Personal Days, at the Booksmith on Wed, June 18 @ 7. Please join us
for the reading and author reception afterwards.
Description:
In an unnamed New York-based company, the employees are getting restless as
everything around them unravels. There's Pru, the former grad student turned
spreadsheet drone; Laars, the hysteric whose work anxiety stalks him in his
tooth-grinding dreams; and Jack II, who distributes unwanted backrubs-aka "jackrubs"-to his
co-workers.
On a Sunday, one of them is called at home. And the Firings begin.
Rich with Orwellian doublespeak, filled with sabotage and romance, this
astonishing literary debut is at once a comic delight and a narrative tour
de force. It's a novel for anyone who has ever worked in an office and
wondered: "Where does the time go? Where does the life go? And whose banana
is in the fridge?"
Wired magazine review:
[H]ysterical...Park's story is set in an absurd yet believable workplace
where personnel, shutting down their computers for the weekend, earnestly
consider the pop-up question, "Are you sure you want to quit?"
For more info, please go to
http;//ed-park.com
