A City Made Of Words: Outspoken Authors

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Paul Park is one of modern fiction's major innovators. With characters truly alien and disturbingly normal, his work explores the shifting interface between traditional narrative and luminous dream, all in the service of a deeper humanism. 'Climate Change,' original to this volume, is an intimate and erotic take on a global environmental crisis. 'A

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"Paul Park is a brilliant, stunning, frightening writer, a major talent."
--Gene Wolfe

"Paul Park is one of the most gifted and subtle story writers I know."
--Jonathan Lethem

"Entering a Paul Park universe means slipping into an eerily compelling plane where nearly palpable visions transform as disturbing as the images in a sexually charged fever dream."
--Publishers Weekly

"Complex, elusive, haunting, written in a transparent prose that slips you from one world to another with prestidigitous ease."
--Ursula K. Le Guin

"Paul Park's short stories are blunt, funny, distressing, strange, true--all these qualities, often all at once."
--Kim Stanley Robinson

Author Bio

Paul Park climaxed his "wanderjahr" in Asia and the Middle East with his Sugar Rain Trilogy, which established him immediately as a writer to watch. His fascinated readers have since followed him into Christian theology, the anatomy of colonialism, and the limits and possibilities of metafictonal narrative. He lives in western Massachusetts and currently teaches at Williams College.