It's Sunday everyone
Author's Note
Interview with author Geum Jeong-yeon

"Finding something trivial and loving it to death." Book reviewer Geum Jeong-yeon's first novel published!
About our friendship, which began insignificantly, ended abruptly, and was remembered foolishly.

The first novel by book critic Geum Jeong-yeon, who practices comprehensive writing about books and is described as “an adventure determined to go down a path that book critics have not taken” (film director Jang Seong-il) and “always uses surprising techniques” (novelist Kim Jung-hyuk), is being published as part of the Wisdom House series Wepick.

One Sunday, 'I' set out on a road trip with 'Hox' at 'P's' request to pack food for a cat named 'Socks'.
However, upon arriving there, the two realize they do not have the key and decide to call a locksmith to open the door.
The locksmith demands a high travel fee for his absurd request of 'I want to feed the cat, but I don't have the key, so please open the door', and ends up losing his 'socks' in the house where he spent all his money to enter.
Soon, a cool breeze blows between my legs, an open window comes into view, and a terrifying image unfolds.
Something like the image of a sock that fell and died while bleeding, and 'Hyunchil', who first taught me the meaning of 'us' when I was young.
'Hyunchil' and 'I', who loved cats, stuttered, and cried easily, were twelve-year-old Sundays.
A cat crying under a car is rescued and named 'Fifty Won'.
But as is often the case with children's friendships that start small and quickly deepen, their relationship also ends abruptly due to a certain incident...

The house where the socks were lost again.
'Me' and my friends drink day and night as if "whatever was meant to happen happened and we have no choice but to wait for the end of the world to come in a terrible guilt."
And then, in my sleep, I hear the voice saying, “……is in ……?”
The voice of 'Socks' that I thought had disappeared.
When he hits the back of his head with his fist and asks, “Where is Hyunchil?” as if asking questions, ‘I’ decide to write a letter to ‘Hyunchil’ on another Sunday.
“Yo Hyeonchil, where the fuck are you, man?”
The biggest twist in this work is that, despite the numerous cat illustrations included, author Geum Jeong-yeon says, “I always wanted to write a novel about dogs.”
"Every Sunday" is also notable for its failure to write "Variations on a Dog Who Has No Place in the World" and for its case of an essay on Bukowski becoming a novel, suggesting that "if it is therefore inevitably ridiculous, then the novel is ultimately about how to make that ridiculousness appear not so ridiculous."
As Claude AI, a staunch supporter of Geum Jeong-yeon's book review, said, "All writing is a dialogue with previous writings, and it is a cyclical process in which failure and success breed each other."

From the novel to the author's notes and interviews, and encountering the author's humorous confessions about the book and his deep love for writing, anyone will be able to love the "trivial" story of failure in "Everything's Sunday."

A special experience that allows you to breathe deeply into 'a single story'

Beginning in November 2022, Wisdom House will be introducing the most diverse and newest stories of Korean literature, one per week, through its short story serial project, "Weekly Fiction."
Over the past year, 50 stories have been loved by readers, including Gu Byeong-mo's "Shred," Jo Ye-eun's "Waiting for the High Tide," Ahn Dam's "The Girl Grows Alone," and Choi Jin-young's "Aurora."
The Wepick series publishes serialized novels in this way, and rather than the conventional method of binding together several short stories, it takes the unusual approach of composing a book with only one short story, giving readers the special experience of breathing deeply into each story.
Wepick is not bound by any criteria or distinctions such as material or format, and focuses solely on the completeness of a single story.
Through novels by a variety of authors, including novelists, non-fiction writers, poets, and youth literature writers, we break down genres and boundaries, expanding the possibilities and enjoyment of stories.

Following the 50 episodes of Season 1, Season 2 is filled with even newer writers and stories.
Season 2 will feature Kang Hwa-gil, Lim Seon-woo, Dan Yo, Jeong Bo-ra, Kim Bo-young, Lee Mi-sang, Kim Hwa-jin, Jeong I-hyeon, Lim Sol-ah, and writers Hwang Jeong-eun.
Additionally, Season 2 will include author interviews to tell various stories inside and outside of the work, further enriching the 50-story festival.

Introducing the Wepick Series

Wepick is a short story series from Wisdom House.
It offers a special experience of breathing deeply into ‘one story’.
I dream that this small piece will become a new piece that expands your world, that each small piece will come together to become your story, and that it will become a piece of literature that will be deeply engraved in your heart.