Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River

• Book launch and author appearance at Texas Book Festival, Wordstock,Brooklyn Book Festival, Miami Bok Festival, and/or LA Times Festival of Books • Author tour across the US, extensive dates in Texas, targeting bookstore and university audiences fully sponsored by the Literature Translation Institute of Korea • Promotion through the Korean Embassy's literature division • Promotion on LibraryThing, Goodreads, Riffle, and other social reading websites • Promotion on the publisher's website (deepvellum.org), Twitter feed (@deepvellum), and Facebook page (/deepvellum) • Promotion in the publisher’s e-newsletter • Promotion at the Texas Book Festival, Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, the American Literary Translators Association Conference, and Book Expo America • Pitching for author appearances at book festivals around the US, such as Brooklyn Book Festival, Texas Book Festival (Austin), Litquake (San Francisco), Miami Book Fair International, PEN World Voices (NYC), Book Expo America (Chicago) • Print publicity targeting literary journals and newspaper book sections, especially the Dallas Morning News • Serial rights targeting Granta, Words Without Borders, Asymptote, The White Review; One Story, The Paris Review, Guernica, Tin House, McSweeney’s, the New Yorker, and others • Publicity targeting The New Inquiry, The Millions, Full-Stop, The Nervous Breakdown, HTMLGIANT, Three Percent, The Literary Saloon, The Quarterly Conversation, and more • Print and digital advertising in select literary journals and magazines and on their websites, such as Granta, The Rumpus, The White Review, A Public Space, Full Stop, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Electric Literature, Music & Literature, Entropy, World Literature Today, and others

A literary meandering into the mythology of place and what a novel can be, inspired by the author’s time spent at an artist residency in small-town Texas.In his inimitable, recursive, meditative style that reads like a comedic zen koan but contains universes, Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River recounts Korean cult writer's Jung Young Moon’s time spent at an artist’s and writers residency in small-town Texas. In an attempt to understand what a “true Texan should know,” the author reflects on his outsider experiences in this most unique of places, learning to two-step, musing on cowboy hats and cowboy churches, blending his observations with a meditative rumination on the history of Texas and the events that shaped the state, from the first settlers to Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald. All the while, the author is asking what a novel is and must be, while accompanied by a fictional cast of seven samurai who the author invents and carries with him, silent companions in a pantomime of existential theater. Jung blends fact with imagination, humor with reflection, and meaning with meaninglessness, as his meanderings become an absorbing, engaging, quintessential novel of ideas.