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Personal Days

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


Thursday, June 18, 2009

It looks like a game of Missile Command

The Geography of Jobs

(via the Rumpus)
Posted by Ed Park at 6:17 AM
Labels: maps, The Rumpus

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Personal Days

Personal Days
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Some reviews

  • 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

  • READINGS AND APPEARANCES
  • VISIT Ed Park's website!
  • Malty
  • The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks
  • City of Work
  • Things I Don't Understand...
  • Save the Assistants
  • The Believer on Twitter
  • Passive Aggressive Notes
  • The 'Personal Days' Random House page
  • Ed at the NYT's "Room for Debate" forum
  • Up From Cubicle
  • NPR's Planet Money
  • Overheard in the Office
  • The New-York Ghost
  • EP's Amazon blog
  • The Dizzies
  • Postcards From Yo Momma

Blog Archive

  • ▼  2009 (118)
    • ►  November (4)
      • Shut the door. Have a seat.
      • Park-Lim-Hsu in Brooklyn
      • Ka-ching!
      • November appearances!
    • ►  October (8)
      • Personal Days — Autumn 2009
      • Unstoppable
      • Reading at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center, 10/2...
      • Is this it?
      • Reading this Thursday, October 8 at KGB
      • Pushing the envelope
      • $28.46
      • Should Thursday be the new Friday? (A: Yes)
    • ►  September (3)
      • Richard Russo on Morning Edition
      • Weds. 9/30 at Columbia....
      • Fall readings
    • ►  August (7)
      • Quasi semi
      • Remember the pre-Internet office?
      • What fuchsia means
      • XOXO
      • Richard Russo on PD
      • Cutting costs
      • Edward Hall, RIP
    • ►  July (7)
      • 'Retropromozione'
      • Kveta Pacovska
      • "Time for Vader to be Vader"
      • The grass is always greener
      • "The ones that never come"
      • Electric company
      • Tonight — July 1 — Korea Society Panel (repost)
    • ▼  June (12)
      • Chuckling nervously
      • Disinformation
      • Korea Society panel, 7/1
      • It looks like a game of Missile Command
      • Extra-strength anvil
      • The lost Ark
      • Post-it, Pixel, Pong
      • Straight man
      • Life is sharp
      • Restructuring
      • Find yourself
      • What do you do?
    • ►  May (11)
      • Star fee
      • D'oh!
      • The *very* bad Starbucks?
      • Hey, Sisyphus
      • Rage against the macheese
      • Getting through the day
      • Visualizing Personal Days with...
      • RTST means...
      • Tall cotton
    • ►  April (14)
    • ►  March (15)
    • ►  February (13)
    • ►  January (24)
  • ►  2008 (280)
    • ►  December (31)
    • ►  November (16)
    • ►  October (20)
    • ►  September (18)
    • ►  August (23)
    • ►  July (35)
    • ►  June (40)
    • ►  May (44)
    • ►  April (25)
    • ►  March (18)
    • ►  February (4)
    • ►  January (6)
  • ►  2007 (5)
    • ►  December (3)
    • ►  September (1)
    • ►  August (1)

UK cover (cloth)

UK cover (cloth)