Email Author Ed Park

2005 Stories by Ed Park

• They Never Forget

  published December 20, 2005

  Some writers make me laugh out loud; Rachel Ingalls makes me cackle. Embedded in her fictions are blackly comic asides; razor-sharp lines... More >>

• A Pale View of Dull: Countess Can't Overcome Crushing Tedium

  published December 13, 2005

  Fusing the supple novelist Kazuo Ishiguro's storytelling instincts and the wanton eye of DP Christopher Doyle should be an exciting proposition,... More >>

• Nobody's Fool

  published November 29, 2005

  July 21 Diaries are what we keep before we get famous. (Not sure if true, but sounds good.) Have just scrapped a sententious paragraph... More >>

• A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family

  published November 8, 2005

  In the Fold, Rachel Cusk's odd and unsettling new novel, is never quite what you think it is. Or rather, it doesn't become what you think... More >>

• Gang of Four

  published November 8, 2005

  It begins in nightmare and ends in a labyrinth, a shape right out of Borges. Along the way, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth... More >>

• Humbert: An Introduction

  published November 1, 2005

  Editor's note: In July of this year, cleaning out my "N" file, I discovered the pristine galleys for Mercy Pang's foreword to a book on... More >>

• Bunny Business

  published September 27, 2005

  Though Wallace and Gromit, turophile inventor and canny canine, have only made four appearances in 16 years, the plasticine pair captures the... More >>

• Sightlines

  published September 27, 2005

  Pastoralia is quintessential George Saunders—the fiction writer's allegory of the cave as totally American workplace hell. In Yehuda... More >>

• The Great Unknown

  published September 20, 2005

  Richard Stern is known for not being better known. A native New Yorker (born 1928) and for many years a University of Chicago professor, an... More >>

• 'The Rodnees: We Mod Like Dat!'

  published September 20, 2005

  This mockumentary in which a group of failed Brooklyn rappers switch gears after listening to the Beatles wears out its welcome quicker than the... More >>

• Drawing From the Heart and Soul of a Country in Chaos

  published September 13, 2005

  In April 2003, New York artist Steve Mumford went to Iraq under the auspices of the online magazine Artnet. He would make four trips over... More >>

• Choreographile Delight: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Dance on Air

  published September 13, 2005

  Here at last on DVD are five of the 10 films Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers inhabited, "chapters in a single epic romance" (per Arlene Croce) or a... More >>

• Books

  published September 6, 2005

  Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran became a surprise hit in 2003, and the paperback edition has spent over a year on the New York... More >>

• Shadowland

  published August 16, 2005

  This year has already seen a spate of books about the situation in North Korea—including Jasper Becker's Rogue Regime, Roland... More >>

• The Conformist

  published August 16, 2005

  Michael Showalter's directorial debut is an immodestly refreshing crash course in modesty. CPA Elliot Sherman (Showalter) is the self-described... More >>

• North vs. West Gymnastics Documentary Sticks the Landing

  published August 2, 2005

  Here's the pitch: Waiting for Guffman meets Bring It On . . . in exotic Pyongyang! British director Daniel Gordon's doc A State... More >>

• 'Saint Ralph'

  published July 26, 2005

  Catholic schoolboy Ralph Walker (Adam Butcher) quixotically enters the 1954 Boston Marathon, magically thinking that a big Beantown victory... More >>

• Capturing an Artist's Aura

  published July 26, 2005

  Jessica Yu's elegant doc is a spry, creative response to Henry Darger's oceanic talent and claustrophobic life. Clocking in at 82 minutes, the... More >>

• Soul-Grinding, Eye-Opening, and Absurd: Tales of a Low Life

  published July 26, 2005

  In 1972, to scare up some scratch before college, the young Luc Sante worked in a grim plastics plant, a job at once soul-grinding, eye-opening,... More >>

• Books

  published July 19, 2005

  John Porcellino's Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man is the comics equivalent of Nabokov's Butterflies—an idiosyncratic... More >>

• 'Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress'

  published July 19, 2005

  Director Dai Sijie has filmed an adaptation of his own bestselling novel Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, a metamorphosis... More >>

• Gimme Nonfiction

  published July 12, 2005

  The writer B.S. Johnson (1933–1973), subject of Jonathan Coe's Like a Fiery Elephant, could be mistaken for a no-holds-barred... More >>

• Stranger With Candy

  published July 5, 2005

  With the Michael Jackson trial over, it's a shade less discomfiting to watch Johnny Depp, as reclusive candy wizard Willy Wonka, escort five... More >>

• Focused And Relentless Absurdity, Plus Ben Stiller

  published July 5, 2005

  Sporting a Dirty Mind-era Prince 'do, the ubiquitous Ben Stiller is nicely unbuttoned as White Goodman, head of a health club that he runs... More >>

• 'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'

  published May 24, 2005

  Mailmen will have a field day calculating the postage spent by Sisterhood's four teenage gal pals, as they send a single pair of jeans... More >>