Episode 533: Ten Minutes with Paul Park

Ten minutes with... is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they're reading right now and what's getting them through these difficult times.

Multiple award-nominated novelist Paul Park discusses reading the Book of Mormon in preparation for his new novel, the challenges of writing about a society with no recognition of gender (including the problem of pronouns), reading about the Dreyfuss affair, serializing a 14-part story on his Facebook page, and a possible new collection of short fiction.

Books mentioned include:

• A Princess of Roumania by Paul Park


• All Those Vanished Engines by Paul Park


• A City Made of Words by Paul Park


• An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris


• The Odyssey by Homer  Emily Wilson (trans.)