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Coming August 11, 2026

Three Tenses

A Transmission from the Nineties

An elegant, iridescent mosaic of autobiographical fragments, both real and invented, forming a portrait of a creative life.

“Stray musings and recollections reveal a writer’s restless mind in this scintillating memoir… It adds up to an engrossing and beguiling trip through the consciousness of a budding wordsmith.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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Coming Sept 29, 2026

The Repairer of Reputations

In this lavishly illustrated flip volume hardcover, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ed Park presents a new tale of contemporary cosmic horror on one side, with his inspiration from Robert W. Chambers’s horror classic The King in Yellow printed on the other.

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Praise for Ed Park, Pulitzer Prize Finalist

Pulitzer Prize Finalist • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist • Time Best Book of the Year • NPR Best Book of the Year • Boston Globe Best Book of the Year
"...a magician of storytelling... With sly humor and deep understanding, Park makes the reader laugh from disquiet, and tear up from being seen."
—Yiyun Li, author of Wednesday's Child (on An Oral History of Atlantis)
“The James Joyce of Korean-American literature, and of our times.”
—Ilyon Woo, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Master Slave Husband Wife
“Dazzling... Park is one of the funniest writers working today, and among the most humane.”
—Kaveh Akbar, New York Times–bestselling author of Martyr! (on An Oral History of Atlantis)
“Wonderfully suspenseful, like watching a circus performer juggle a dozen torches... sprawling, stunning.”
—The New York Times Book Review (on Same Bed Different Dreams)
"An Oral History of Atlantis is a snapshot of who we are and where we are as well as an offbeat map to where we might dare to go... I'm already looking forward to a re-read."
—Paul Tremblay, NY Times–bestselling author of Horror Movie and A Head Full of Ghosts
“What’s the collective noun for a school of stories so bright and brilliant, they ripple with humor, compassion, and wonder? Call them an ‘Ed Park.’”
—Samantha Hunt, author of The Dark Dark (on An Oral History of Atlantis)
“I could not stop reading, thinking, and dreaming about Same Bed Different Dreams... A feverish, mind-altering marvel of a book.”
—Hua Hsu, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Stay True
“Your view of 20th century history will be enlarged and altered by Ed Park’s mysterious and panoramic novel... This is a Gravity’s Rainbow for another war, an unfinished war.”
—Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn (on Same Bed Different Dreams)
“Same Bed Different Dreams is like no other novel I’ve read before—a cabinet of wonders that demands to be read and reread.”
—Cathy Park Hong, author of Minor Feelings
“An ingenious postmodern epic... Wizardly, funny, lyrical, poignant... This tribute to the fractured peninsula’s citizens, diaspora, and allies is one for the ages.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review for Same Bed Different Dreams)
“Funny, tragic, winsome screwball science-fiction prose poetry of ‘maximum lexical density’ that’s pure pleasure to read.”
—Sarah Manguso, author of Liars (on An Oral History of Atlantis)
“Park’s delightful tales, which are driven by provocative ideas, strange occurrences, and gripping plots, pay tribute to the legacy of Kurt Vonnegut in the best ways...”

Publishers Weekly (starred review for An Oral History of Atlantis)
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Same Bed Different Dreams

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of The Los Angeles Times Book Prize

A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves on the present—loaded with assassins and mad poets, role-playing games and slasher films, K-pop bands and tech conglomerates.

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An Oral History of Atlantis: Stories

In this utterly original collection, characters bemoan their fleeting youth, focus on their breathing, meet cute, break up, forget their passwords, write book reviews, translate glyphs, bid on stuff online, adjust their monitors, and search for solace in the sublime.

“Stellar…Park’s delightful tales, which are driven by provocative ideas, strange occurrences, and gripping plots, pay tribute to the legacy of Kurt Vonnegut in the best ways. This pitch-perfect collection will linger in readers’ minds for a long time.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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“Wonderfully suspenseful, like watching a circus performer juggle a dozen torches... sprawling, stunning.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Your view of 20th century history will be enlarged and altered by Ed Park’s mysterious and panoramic novel... This is a Gravity’s Rainbow for another war, an unfinished war.”
—Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn
“I could not stop reading, thinking, and dreaming about Same Bed Different Dreams...
A feverish, mind-altering marvel of a book.”
—Hua Hsu, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Stay True
“Same Bed Different Dreams is like no other novel I’ve read before—a cabinet of wonders that demands to be read and reread.”
—Cathy Park Hong, author of Minor Feelings
“An ingenious postmodern epic...Wizardly, funny, lyrical, poignant...This tribute to the fractured peninsula’s citizens, diaspora, and allies is one for the ages.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“First book in ages that I wanted to go back and immediately start reading again.”
Michael Chabon, from Instagram