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Jun26
The Publishing Spot Library: Novelist Ed Park

"I've been stuck in the elevator, suspended in utter coffin blackness somewhere between the third and fourth floors—listening to the cables quiver, and every so often hearing the distant shouts of emergency workers saying, Hang in there buddy! or what sounds like a very heavy wrench clanking on assorted beams as it tumbles into the abyss—and even though my laptop’s on, it sheds no light...”

That’s one of Ed Park’s characters banging out a single block of text on a busted laptop-computer, the breathless conclusion to his first book, Personal Days. Park was our special guest this week, enlightening us on these three topics:

The Fine Art of Blow-the-Top-Off-Your-Head Writing

and then, How To Write Books-Inside-of-Books

and finally, The Life of a Working Writer.

If you want more Ed Park goodness, check out his blog The Dizzies, his interview with Ed Champion and his reading at Google--the video located at the top of this page...

 


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