It has been an unseasonably lovely, cool, thunderstormy spring in Dallas. Which means we have more time to sit inside and R-E-A-D as it rains. Perfection.

Jung Young Moon is reading at events the next two weeks in Berkeley, CA at the Bay Area Book Festival (June 4 & 5), Seattle (June 7), Dallas (June 8 & 10), Austin (June 14), and Houston (June 16)—full tour dates & information are below.

will be available at all events on this tour, and Deep Vellum subscribers can pick up their subscription copy at these events in Dallas ahead of its publication date.

We’re preparing to host our Korean author Jung Young Moon, whose breathtaking novel Vaseline Buddha we’re publishing next month in Yewon Jung‘s translation as the first in our Korean Literature Series, sponsored by the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (our second book in the series, Bae Suah‘s Recitation, will be out this winter in Man Booker International-winner Deborah Smith‘s translation).

Our friends at Dalkey Archive Press are publishing Jung’s novel A Contrived Worldto coincide with this tour as well, giving we Americans the chance to fall in love with the absurd, hilarious “Korean answer to Beckett & Kafka.”

Next week, Deep Vellum subscribers will receive the next two books in their subscription: Jung‘s Vaseline Buddha, and Morocco’s most prominent contemporary author, Fouad Laroui‘s remarkable, hilarious story collection, and English-language debut,

The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers, translated with great nuance and skill by Emma Ramadan, whom you may remember as the translator of Anne Garréta‘s breakthrough novel Sphinx.
Read the title story from Laroui’s collection at Words Without Borders.As always, each of these books includes our subscribers’ names included in the acknowledgements at the end of the book as our way of saying thanks for their support. Every Deep Vellum subscriber and donor receives this acknowledgment, because we could not do this without you, and do this for you.

We always have tons of our authors’ events around the world plus Dallas literary events we’re a part of on our website’s calendar and listed below. Join us for some events in Texas or beyond, we look forward to seeing you out & about in the land of the literary living around the world!