Personal Days

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

Thursday, February 2, 2012

"The Golden Path"

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Personal Days

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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

  • 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

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Blog Archive

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      • Post-Fordist Office Drudgery
      • Two readings, April 23 & 25, in NYC!
      • Almost mysticism
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      • Readings? Readings!
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      • Sloane Crosley and Ed in conversation
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      • April doings
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      • Chair + readings
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