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The Center for Fiction Presents Ed Park on Same Bed Different Dreams with Hua Hsu

November 7, 2023

The Center for Fiction was thrilled to welcome Ed Park, author of the novel Personal Days and founding editor of The Believer, to discuss his latest novel, Same Bed Different Dreams. This imaginative, exciting depiction of an alternate secret history of Korea is a genre-defying romp featuring assassins and mad poets, RPGs and slasher films, pop bands and the perils of social media. He was joined by Hua Hsu (Stay True) for a conversation about Korean history and culture, weaving together narrative and time, and pushing the limits of genre.

In Conversation

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    Hua Hsu

    Hua Hsu

    Hua Hsu is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Stay True, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and was a top ten book of 2022 at the New York Times, Washington Post, the Atlantic, and New York magazine. He is a staff writer at the New Yorker and a professor of Literature at Bard College. Hsu serves on the executive board of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. He was formerly a fellow at the New America Foundation and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his family.


    Photo Credit: Devlin Claro