Ed Park Discusses Three Tenses: A Transmission From the Nineties with Sloane Crosley

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BPL Presents welcomes Ed Park, who discusses Three Tenses, an elegant, iridescent mosaic of autobiographical fragments that form a portrait of a creative life, from the life of the Pulitzer Prize finalist for Same Bed Different Dreams. Park will be in conversation with Sloane Crosley. In 1998, Ed Park wrote a memoir, printed it out, then lost it for more than twenty years. Twenty-two years later, emptying out an old, unmarked box in his family’s cramped New York City home, he came across a hefty manila folder. Out slid the only remaining copy of Three Tenses. The piece of writing that Park found—“a voice lesson, a language experiment, an autobiography with lies, a document of sustained artistic bliss of a sort that I have never found again”—was an assemblage of beguiling anecdotes, sly observations, and collected esoterica, produced within the confines of the shoebox apartment of his twenties and only now allowed to see the light of day. Two Ed Parks emerge on the page: within the prose of the young, struggling writer arises the voice of the artist he would become. Profound, wily, and beautifully wrought, Three Tenses is a meeting of memory and myth, confession and obfuscation, coalescing to offer a singular picture of creativity in action. PARTICIPANTS Ed Park is the author of the memoir Three Tenses: A Transmission From the Nineties, the novels Same Bed Different Dreams (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize) and Personal Days, and the story collection An Oral History of Atlantis (all Random House), as well as a recent work of weird horror, The Repairer of Reputations (Hell's Hundred/Soho). He is a founding editor of The Believer, and has been an editor for The Village Voice, Penguin Press, and elsewhere. Last year he received the Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Deborah Pease Prize from A Public Space. Park lives in Manhattan and teaches at Princeton University. Photo credit Beowulf Sheehan Sloane Crosley is the…

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