Ed Park

Deprivation Exercises

Ágota Kristóf fled her native Hungary just after the uprising of 1956 and spent the rest of her life in Switzerland, writing in French. But “all my books are about Hungary,” she said a dozen years before her death.

Becoming Enid Coleslaw

In each dense and delirious issue of Eightball, Daniel Clowes was driven to perfectionism, ricocheting like mad from story to story and foretelling some of the comic medium’s possible futures.

A Good Story to Tell

“As an editor, I liked it when writers opened my eyes to their passions, however obscure they might seem. As a writer, I want to do the same.”

A Poet’s-Eye View

Yi Sang, Korean literature’s perpetual enfant terrible, was not only a cutting-edge writer but a working architect, and his oeuvre teems with dark rooms, mirror worlds, and other uncanny spaces.

Like No One They’d Ever Seen

Younghill Kang’s East Goes West, one of the first Korean American novels, overflows with memorable motormouths, busybodies, sad sacks, and dreamers.