Personal Days

The official blog for the novel 'Personal Days' by Ed Park

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Some instructions

“...to twist the tips of your nerves into tiny raw knots, press five...”
Posted by Ed at 9:09 PM
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  • PD is a finalist for the PEN Hemingway Award
  • One of TIME's Top Ten Fiction Books of 2008
  • "Hamlet at the Water Cooler"—Newsweek
  • PD's appearances on "Best of 2008" lists
  • "Witty and appealing...a layoff narrative for our times. As the economy continues its free fall, Park’s book may serve as a handy guide for navigating unemployment and uncertainty." —The New York Times Book Review (an Editors' Choice)
  • A "comic and creepy début...Park transforms the banal into the eerie." —The New Yorker
  • PD shortlisted for the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Award
  • One of TIME magazine's "Three First Novels That Just Might Last"
  • “The ideal book to read under the table during the next staff training seminar. Park has strayed into Ricky Gervais's territory and may soon be its king.” —Observer
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Other Links

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  • Malty
  • The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks
  • City of Work
  • Things I Don't Understand...
  • Save the Assistants
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  • Passive Aggressive Notes
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  • Up From Cubicle
  • NPR's Planet Money
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