Bracing Currents in "An Oral History of Atlantis" - Chicago Review of Books

Bracing Currents in "An Oral History of Atlantis" - Chicago Review of Books

Always witty, sometimes surreal, frequently diving beneath mundane surfaces to mysterious and mesmerizing depths, An Oral History of Atlantis, the first collection of Ed Park’s short stories, showcases a master of the form. There’s a delightful variety to the stories here, and while Park’s narrators have a consistently engaging kind of urbane intelligence, the real connecting thread here is the selections’ sharpness, the startling and playful pi…