editor's note
Park Yeon-bin does not interfere and exists alone, but in a way that does not exist alone 2-3

review
Gong Hyun-jin and Gi-jun Young, "Everyone's Everything" 8-15
Alba de Céspedes's "The Forbidden Diary"

interview
Lee Hee-joo, 16-29, beyond the deaf ears

chat
Shin I-in, Lee Ha-jin, Jeong Hee-soo [ ] 30-49

issue
Lee Dong-hwi's "Listening Book" Making Thoughts (and Three Side Notes) 50-54
Yoo Gye-young's My Golden Record Story 56-60
Shin Jong-won's Maze in the Ear, Map in the Mouth, Vol. 62-66

cover story
Park Ji-soo, Leaving Your Seat Empty, 68-77
―Chun Kyung-woo's "Resonance"

keyword
Seo Yoon-bin's Bird Catalog 86-109

review
Ham Yun-i and Han Min-su's "Diary of a Movie Thief" 110-117
Kenneth Goldsmith, "Non-creative Literature: Dealing with Language in the Digital Environment"

short story
Choi Ye-sol, 118-142 in the West Sea

novel
Song Island Melboldine Zoo (Final Episode) 144-173
Jeong Gi-hyeon's Apricot Farm Tag (Episode 5) 174-196
Lee Sun-jin's Lost Diary (Episode 4) 198-224
Hagaram Sun-patterned Animals (3rd) 226-247
Kim Yi-seol's Law of Transition (Part 2) 248-273
Choi Mi-rae's Little Revenge (Episode 1) 274-295

○ interview
“So, for now, scream as much as you can in literature.
Then listen to the faint screams of others beyond your deaf ears.
Feel it more and more.
“I think it is necessary to go through that process.” _Hee-joo Lee, from an interview

In the interview, we spoke with novelist Lee Hee-joo, who recently met readers with her first novel collection, “Creamy (Null) Love.”
He screams out loud, even in his novels, that the world has always been “an incomprehensible mystery.”
That scream is a comfort to those who resemble him, and it gives them the strength to scream together.
By listening to each other in this way, the world can move in a slightly better direction.
Having concluded one chapter by publishing his first collection of short stories and winning the Lee Hyo-seok Literary Award in his tenth year since his debut, we look forward to seeing what kind of time he will fill in his next chapter.

○ chat * issue
In the chat, we read Marie-Herlin Bertino's novel, "The Autobiography of an Alien," a report on human observations written by an alien who was accidentally born on Earth, together with poet Shin I-in, novelist Lee Ha-jin, and editor Jeong Hee-su.
The life of the protagonist, Adina, who transmits the 'Earth Observation Log' to her home planet, is somehow touching and sad.
The way he, who is both human and alien, lives with his antenna pointed here and there without belonging anywhere, allows us to discover a new aspect of society.
In the issue corner, editor Lee Dong-hwi, poet Yoo Gye-young, and novelist Shin Jong-won wrote essays on 'Jjonggeut' from various perspectives.
Dong-Hwi Lee, who planned the book series 'oooe' that you can listen to at Workroom Press, talks about why this book had to be a 'book' rather than an audiobook or podcast.
Yoo Gye-young, who has been sensitive to sound since childhood, carefully introduced her 'small ear', which is always receiving the wow signal, and shared her thoughts on 'jjonggeut'.
Meanwhile, Shin Jong-won learns that the novelist is more of a listener than a speaker, and we come to understand the autumn he feels.
As the weather gets chilly, I suggest focusing on the stories of three people and feeling the warmth of others.

○ novel
In addition to the existing novel series, novelist Choi Mirae's new full-length novel, "Little Revenges," will begin serialization.
Choi Mirae explains 'Wild' in 'Starting the Serial'.
“Wild is so fun I can’t stand it.
What drives life.
Building myself by gaining strength.
But it is something that can be lost.” This novel, like his sentence, is a story of people who take care of or regain their own wildness.
I hope you look forward to seeing what revenge unfolds over the next year.
Songseom's 'Melboldine Zoo' has reached its final episode.
'Na' and Pyo-eun leave for Prague to visit the zoo.
But suddenly, a strange tension arises between the two.
You will be watching until the end to see what meaning the relationship between these two people, which is difficult to define easily, will have.
Jeong Gi-hyeon's 'Apricot Farm Tag' has one final episode left.
When Ki-jeong returned home, not only Seon-yeol but also his son were waiting for him.
Is this really the end of their relationship, where they decided to resolve their misunderstandings and reconcile?
Meanwhile, Park Jeong-kim, who has shrunk in front of Ki-jeong, appears, and Moon Jong-il continues his relationship with Kim Jang-sook, and their relationships continue to run in unexpected directions.
In episode 4 of Lee Seon-jin's 'Diary of Losing', my aunt and I leave for the Philippines to manage the language school left behind by my deceased uncle.
It piques readers' curiosity about what they will experience there and what new words will be defined in Jinjinju's dictionary.
In episode 3 of Hagaram's "Sun-patterned Animals," tension rises further as Yeon-oh, who has visited Hounsa Temple after a long time, encounters "it."
Yeon-oh, who kept talking to that thing that couldn't communicate, eventually succeeded in communicating in his own way.
In the second installment of Kim Yi-seul's 『Law of Transition』, the story continues from Eugene's perspective.
A relationship that continues without giving it a name starts to go wrong at some point.
That's how my relationship with Team Leader Oh and my relationship with Hyunwoo ends.
I hope that readers will end the year by falling in love with the charm of novels that will have you waiting for the next installment.

○ keyword * short story
In the keyword series, which continues the relay series on the theme of 'climate crisis', novelist Seo Yun-bin's "Bird's Catalog" is included.
The novel, which begins with the striking footnote “This work is related to real people, events, and places” under the title, is the story of ‘I’ and ‘Pascal’ who go in search of the songs of birds to stimulate the hearing of ‘Claire’ who has lost her memory.
However, unlike what was recorded in Claire's birding notebook from her childhood, the birds' songs have changed to screams.
Could they possibly record a bird's song similar to the one from the past and play it for Claire?

The short story section includes a new short story by Choi Ye-sol, a novelist whose name has been nominated for the 2025 Kim Yu-jeong Literary Award and whose work raises expectations for the future.
"In the West Sea" calmly depicts the process of becoming close to 'Yongseohae', who broke up with her ex-boyfriend, after meeting him by chance in front of the pharmacy where she worked part-time, from 'my' perspective.
It shows that two letters in a name can tell more stories than that, and that our lives can be enriched by them.

○ review * cover story
In the review, novelists Gong Hyeon-jin and Ham Yun-i await us with a book review.
It's a perfect season for quiet reading at home, so I hope that one of the books featured in this review will find a place on readers' bookshelves.
I hope that readers will be able to come up with a different perspective from the context they read.

The cover story featured photographer Kyungwoo Cheon's work, "Resonance."
Portrait photography has always been created with the photographer as the central figure.
However, Cheon Gyeong-woo, on the other hand, does not simply leave the subject of the photograph as an object to be photographed, but makes it a collaborator who actively uses time to create images together.
Emptying the subject's position and inviting the other to take that place is an attitude that we, who live our lives thinking and thinking centered on 'me', should consider at least once.