Park's second novel, Same Bed Different Dreams, was published by Random House[2] in November 2023. Publishers Weekly named it a Top 10 Book of the Year,[3] and The New York Times said, "It’s a challenging read and yet wonderfully suspenseful, like watching a circus performer juggle a dozen torches…A sprawling, stunning novel."[4] It won the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction.[5] On May 6, 2024, Same Bed Different Dreams was announced as a Finalist for 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[6]
Career
Park was a founding editor of the magazine The Believer in 2003, and has been an editor at the Poetry Foundation, as well as the editor of the Village Voice's Literary Supplement.[1] Beginning in August 2006, soon after he lost his job at the Village Voice, he circulated a PDF-only newsletter called "The New-York Ghost".[7] From 2007 to 2011, he wrote the science-fiction column "Astral Weeks" for the Los Angeles Times.[1] His stories, articles, and humor have appeared in The New Yorker.[8] From 2018 to 2021, he wrote the graphic novel column for the New York Times Book Review.[9]
In 2011, he was hired by Amazon Publishing as a senior editor, where he was in charge of the company's literary side.[10] After hiring him, Amazon later gave him his own imprint, Little A. He earned Amazon a major literary prize while working there.[11] He has written introductions to several books, including Anthony Powell's Afternoon Men,[12] and co-edited three anthologies: Read Hard and Read Harder (both with Heidi Julavits), and Buffalo Noir (with Brigid Hughes).[13] In 2014, it was reported that he had been hired by Penguin Press as executive editor.[11] He has taught in the graduate writing program at Columbia University.[14] He currently teaches at Princeton University.[15]
