01 There is nothing in the world I hate more than going to work.
02 The History of Obesity and Madness
I think it would be okay if I just lost 3 years.
04 The Hell Called Invitation
05 Page 26 of My Sad Love Story
06 Minimum Wage Chronicles - A Meditation on the ShakeShack Burger
07 The Dilemma of the Life I Chose
08 On that day, the thing I was so afraid of happened
09 Chief Kim, who is unfriendly to everyone
10 Resigning in broad daylight
11. On Genetics, and Its Obsession
12 New York, New York
13 Ways to Survive in the Big City
14 The People of Plastic
15 Please put your legs down!
16 In my own way, for example
17th Busan International Film Festival
18 Regular Fit Blue Jeans
19 The last dot in my life
20 One day makes another day come alive

Author's Note

Even if I'm lonely and sad, I have to go to bed hungry tonight.
High-calorie encouragement and sweet-and-sour comfort from novelist Park Sang-young.

"Hey, you there!" Aren't you feeling languid amidst the ups and downs of work, the hardships of quitting, and the rigors of everyday life? "I'll definitely go to bed hungry tonight!" Yet, right before you get off work, you find yourself ordering half-and-half chicken from a delivery app? Your New Year's resolutions have long since crumbled and your resolve for the new semester has long since melted away, but if you're still striving to find happiness amidst all those setbacks, you've come to the right place.
If you've been feeling lost, wondering where to go and how to live, no matter how much you rack your brain, you've come to the right place.
The book that's perfect for you, the book that tells you that you're not alone, "I'm Going to Sleep Hungry Tonight" is that book.

"I'll Go to Bed Hungry Tonight" is the first essay by Park Sang-young, a novelist who received much love for "How to Love in the City."
The author wrote honestly, refreshingly, and poignantly about his own 'real' life, where he spent countless nights in self-reproach and pain, repeating diets and binge eating.
If the novella "How to Love in the City" is a novel written based on an understanding of one's relationship with the world, the essay "I'll Go to Bed Hungry Tonight" is a book written with a thorough effort to understand oneself.
(So ​​how can it be this thoroughly fun?)

You could also say it like this.
"I'll Go to Sleep Hungry Tonight" is an essay by a novelist, an ordinary 30-something member of society, no different from us all, offering small comfort and encouragement to those of us for whom dreams and goals have become luxuries.
'Comfort' and 'encouragement' may sound a bit old-fashioned, but beneath these words of comfort and encouragement lies the author's heartbreaking life story.
(That's why it can be so heartbreaking.)

To you who lives with failure every day

I can confidently say that there is probably no one on earth who can write a humorous suspense diet(?) essay that is closely related to life, not to avoid gaining more weight, but to live more happily, and ends up vowing to “go to bed hungry tonight” better than novelist Park Sang-young!

“Anyway, novels are fiction, and I like that I can run away and hide behind them.
Essays require me to speak as my true self, and that's always scary.
I feel sick while writing.
“I think there is a fear of showing my true self.” _[Hankyoreh] In an interview with ‘Oh Eun and Yojo’s These Days’

The reason is simple.
I suffered while writing, and there were times when I was too scared to show my true self.
Even so, it is because I wrote it without taking care of my body.
The real story of Park Sang-young himself.


If you are a reader who has ever spent a day under tremendous stress, come home, order delivery, eat a full meal, and barely manage to fall asleep, or have ever laid in bed and vowed to yourself that you will definitely skip meals tomorrow, the essay “I Will Skip Tonight” will be a great comfort to you.
The author says:
Even if we can't sleep without eating tonight, or even if we fail our diet and binge eat again, let's stop being so hard on ourselves.
Let's be grateful for the fact that we live each day to the fullest.
Let's tell ourselves that we are living well.

So please, to you who are living through failure every day, read the high-calorie encouragement and sweet-and-sour consolation that novelist Park Sang-young offers, telling you that you are holding on well and living well!

Even if I'm lonely and sad, I'll go to bed hungry tonight! Or not? No!

Author's Note

Still, I have to go to bed hungry tonight.