About this Event
Adelphi University's Low-Residency MFA Program invites you to join us for a reading, conversation, and book signing with author Ed Park at Adelphi University's Manhattan Center (529 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10173), on Monday, August 17th at 6:00 PM.
This in-person event is FREE, but registration is required (you will need a valid ID to enter the building).
Books will be on sale from Posman Books! This is a great opportunity to meet the author, ask questions, and connect with other readers and writers.
The entrance to 529 Fifth Avenue is on 44th Street between Madison and Fifth Ave.
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Ed Park is the author of the novels Same Bed Different Dreams (2023), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Personal Days (2008), a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His debut story collection, An Oral History of Atlantis, was published in July 2025. His fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harper’s, The Atlantic, Bookforum, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. He is a founding editor of The Believer and the former literary editor of The Village Voice, and has worked in newspapers and book publishing.
In 2025, Park received the Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Deborah Pease Prize from A Public Space. His memoir, , is forthcoming in Summer 2026, followed in the fall by , a work of weird horror bound in a special edition with the 1895 Robert W. Chambers classic of the same title.
Event venue & nearby stays
529 5th Ave, 529 5th Avenue, New York, United States
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