Update: Here's the playlist, featuring songs ("Work Is a Four-Letter Word"!), readings from PD, and cubicle shots from listeners:
Monday, June 30, 2008
EP on the radio
Ed will be on WFMU this morning, talking about Personal Days with Benjamen Walker, on his show Theory of Everything. Tune in online!
Update: Here's the playlist, featuring songs ("Work Is a Four-Letter Word"!), readings from PD, and cubicle shots from listeners:
Update: Here's the playlist, featuring songs ("Work Is a Four-Letter Word"!), readings from PD, and cubicle shots from listeners:
Welcome to the newsroom
From Pinky's Paperhaus:
Personal Days, real world version
Ed Park’s novel Personal Days is set in a company drastically downsizing. This flickr set of the empty spaces left behind as the San Jose Mercury News downsizes perfectly illustrates what I pictured as the novel’s workspaces. I guess it made the rounds earlier this year, but it’s back in the news — the longtime designer who took the photos was just told he’s been laid off, too.
Personal Days, real world version
Ed Park’s novel Personal Days is set in a company drastically downsizing. This flickr set of the empty spaces left behind as the San Jose Mercury News downsizes perfectly illustrates what I pictured as the novel’s workspaces. I guess it made the rounds earlier this year, but it’s back in the news — the longtime designer who took the photos was just told he’s been laid off, too.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
PD trivia
How is the pose in the NYT author pic a coded reference to one of Ed's favorite authors, Harry Stephen Keeler?
(Click here for the answer.)
(Click here for the answer.)
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