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Author of THREE TENSES, AN ORAL HISTORY OF ATLANTIS, SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS, & PERSONAL DAYS

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Congratulations to the J&N Authors on PW's Best of the Year roundup!

"The news is scary enough these days, so let’s skip the Halloween references and go straight to what we’re thankful for: the 150 best books of 2023. PW’s reviews editors have rounded up a truly stellar bunch this year, headlined by a top 10 that includes a brilliant and timely novel about the origins of AI and a stunning inquiry into race, art, and legacy by Christina Sharpe, our cover author. In addition, we have longlists in all the categories we regularly review in, as well as 50 outstanding works for children and teens. There’s something for every reader—go find your next favorite book now."
—David Adams, Adult Reviews Director

SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS by Ed Park: What if Korea’s government-in-exile during the early 20th-century Japanese occupation were still operating today, with the secret mission to reunite the peninsula? Who would be involved? These questions and more are explored in Park’s triumphant postmodern masterpiece, which is also a hilarious send-up of publishing and a moving portrait of the Korean diaspora.

HOW CAN I HELP YOU by Laura Sims:This cat-and-mouse suspense story about a pair of employees at a Midwestern library whose checkered pasts collide generates Patricia Highsmith–style psychological fireworks. The narrative’s multiple reveals and shattering climax hit with maximum impact, delivering a deliciously dark monument to extremity that’s among the year’s most exhilarating.

THE HALF KNOWN LIFE by Pico Iyer: Iyer’s dreamlike quest to define earthly paradise takes him to some of the world’s holiest sites, from the Western Wall in Israel to the Imam Reza shrine in Iran. Thorny questions—is paradise possible in a world rife with suffering?—are tempered by elegant prose that at turns stuns and enlightens. Luminous and searching, this explores the global and the spiritual with equal mastery.

#samebeddifferentdreams #edpark #howcanihelpyou #laurasims #thehalfknownlife #picoiyer #publishersweekly #bestof2023

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His #lettera22 helped @tharealedpark create Same Bed Different Dreams.

#olivettitypewriter #edpark #samebeddifferentdreams #bookstagram #novelwriter #writersofinstagram #olivettilettera22 #writerstools #writerportrait

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This is it. After a half decade in Nevada, nine months wandering the metaphorical wilderness, and one staggeringly successful crowdsourcing effort, The Believer is back and better than ever.

Prepare your finest reading organs: our 140th issue is here.

Inside what has already been called the best magazine of the year you’ll find Natalie So on microchip theft in Silicon Valley, Sarah Marshall on our national obsession with serial killers, and a tribute to Greg Tate from Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah. Feel the decadent thrill of interviews with Miguel Arteta and Aubrey Plaza, Angel Olsen, Alan Alda, and Rickie Lee Jones. Gawk in awe at new columns from Claire Vaye Watkins, Hanif Abdurraqib, Carrie Brownstein, and returning champion Nick Hornby. All this, plus crosswords, copy-editing games, international best-seller lists, odes to San Francisco’s 24th Street McDonald’s, and surprises aplenty, all ready to welcome you back into The Believer’s familiar embrace.

While this grand homecoming issue won’t be available in stores until later this month, our backers and subscribers can now bask in this issue’s glorious literary warmth now, before the issue hits newsstands. Subscribe today and celebrate this most unkillable of literary journals.

Link in bio to subscribe.

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From @simon.hanselmann’s BAD GATEWAY

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Thank you @rollingstone for naming #AstralWeeks1968 one of the Best Music Books of 2018!
This is especially meaningful to me because half of the book aims to finish a story Rolling Stone mag started in 1971!
Am forever indebted to the editor of Fear & Loathing, David Felton, who casually shared with me his theory that an old guru might have faked his own death. •
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#AstralWeeks #VanMorrison #WarnerBrothers #1968 #Boston #Belfast #MelLyman #BosstownSound #RollingStone #BestBooksOf2018 #BestBooks2018

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Our latest newsletter 〰️ party pictures, plus a chance to win an @aceandjig quilt! Link in bio.

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Incredibly pleased that KCRW’s The Organist’s episode on Chris Reynolds and the world of Mauertania is out TODAY! We’ve got the link in the bio, but you can also find it on any podcast purveyor.

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“This is my story. The story of someone who lost everything, and then found it again.” The latest episode of @kcrworganist is the deepest possible dive into the dream world of Chris Reynolds, one of my comics heroes, by @shackel4000 (of ANTIGONICK fame), with some great insights into CR‘s aesthetics and comics history in general from Seth (who first turned me into Chris’s almost 15 years ago). Voices of @borelcorp and others...including me in my podcast debut, interviewing the man himself. [Is that how I really sound?! ALL: Yes.] I *just* finished listening to it on my phone, having started it on my laptop early this morning, then on the Echo cooking breakfast (putting two Trader Joe’s hash browns and one TJ’s pop-tart into the toaster oven for the kids), then in the car (it made the gridlock bearable). 🙌 @quailty @roosshamanana @lucaswadams @nyrcomics

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Still obsessed with how this cover turned out.

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Happy Friday, ya'll! Check out these awesome #books: The Lost Art of Reading by #davidguetta Ulin, the #BrilliantWomen series Heroic Leaders and Activists & Incredible Sporting Champions, #SarahSchulman's Maggie Terry, The Other Side by Lacy M. Johnson, #ReadHarder, edited by @tharealedpark and @heidijulavits, Jaqueline Winspear's #MaisieDobbs, Michael Herr's #Dispatches, James Alan McPherson's Hue and Cry, and, finally, Paris on the Brink by Mary McAuliffe.
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We've got these titles and more at #RebelHeartBooks in #jacksonvilleoregon! Visit today!
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The Guardian includes Chris Reynold’s “The New World” in “From Maus to Tamara Drewe: the 10 graphic novels everyone should read”! Thanks, @paul_gravett !

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Awesome event tonight with Ryan Walsh, whose book Astral Weeks has been a hot seller all summer. Everyone was ready to hear stories about Van Morrison, 1968, and how music can heal broken hearts.
#newtonvillebooks #indiebookstore #bookstoreday #bookstagram #igbooks #bookstoresofboston #newton #idratherbereading #instaread #bookstrumphate #bibliophiles
#thisismybookstore #summerreading #currentlyreading #booknerd #bookworm #bookclubs

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it’s 2017. why can’t the #ratpack be of #east #asian descent? @kundimanforever #kundiman #nyc #manhattan @mocanyc

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