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Coming July 29, 2025

An Oral History of Atlantis: Stories

Characters question the fleetingness of youth and art, reckon with the consequences of the everyday, and find solace in the absurd, the beautiful, and the sublime. Throughout, Ed Park deploys his trademark wit to create a world both strikingly recognizable and delightfully other.

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Praise for Ed Park, Pulitzer Prize finalist

“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
“Wonderfully suspenseful, like watching a circus performer juggle a dozen torches...
sprawling, stunning.”
—The New York Times Book Review (for Same Bed Different Dreams)
“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
“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)
“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)
“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)
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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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“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