SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS, by Ed ParkJust after I’d registered for my first semester of college courses, I was meandering among a concourse of clubs and teams, fending off their grinning ambassadors, when a newspaper headline caught my eye: “U.S.
Late in his lush, labyrinthine “Same Bed Different Dreams,” Ed Park recreates that moment, twisting the doomed flight’s number into a James Bond motif that resonates throughout the novel.
Soon Sheen is an erstwhile Korean American writer turned lackey for GLOAT, a technology conglomerate.
“Same Bed, Different Dreams” maps the arc of the mysterious Korean Provisional Government (or K.P.G.
(Park’s novel and Echo’s nonfiction novel share a title, based on a Korean proverb and helpfully demarcated by Echo’s comma, the punctuation a possible allusion to the 38th parallel.)
Persons:
Ed Park, Ronald Reagan’s, sabers, Ed, James Bond, Sheen, lackey, ’, ”, Drudge, swipes
Organizations:
Says Soviet, Korean, Jet, Korean Provisional Government
Locations:
Korean, GLOAT, NCD, Manhattan, Dogskill