The Towering Irrelevance

What will we do without Ed Park? We’ve been obsessively asking ourselves this question since Ed informed us of his departure—he’s training to be a croupier in Monaco, or so we’ve been told—and a satisfying answer has yet to emerge.

No. Ed Park is leaving to be an editor in the newly created publishing wing of Amazon.

I know Ed only a very little but respect him endlessly and like him enough that that little feels too little. I want to be his friend, I mean. I want to go on double dates with him. He’s also a great editor, a great writer, and more polite than you could imagine.

But he will be working for Amazon. My entire livelihood is predicated on resistance to that bloated grotesque company, and I can still respect the choice to work for them. It sounds like a sweet gig with the possibility to do good for some good writing. Also Ed has a family to feed.

It just strikes me as weird, then, that they’d choose to be coy about it at The Believer. I know the croupier thing is an obvious reference to it. And perhaps they’re only hoping to protect him from an onslaught of submissions. Still: weird.

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