Personal Days in L.A.!

Ed will be reading at Book Soup (8818 W. Sunset Blvd) in Los Angeles today 6/20—

Ed Park's first novel covers the ground between the rolling chair and the desk; the fax machine and the water cooler. "Personal Days" decodes the office politics of an unnamed New York company from the perspective of a group of distinct characters so enmeshed, they're not really quite sure how they got there in the first place. Or how to get out. Sounds like life around here. —Metromix Los Angeles