My third time moderating the Korean Culture Centre UK’s Literature Nights. It’s a gig that makes me appreciate where my wide ranging interests, methods, activities sometimes takes me. To be asked to deep read such brilliant books, come up with questions for mostly non-specialist participants, people who are just interested in Korean culture, and then talk about these books, for a few hours, is really such a pleasure. This time, Don Mee Choi’s DMZ Colony, as excellent at Kim Hyesoon’s Autobiography of Death and Han Kang’s The White Book. Choi’s book is powerful, deeply affecting, but also methodologically remarkable, blending commentary and poetry with found materials, photographs, documents, collage and more. It’s a rare book where method and meaning are in synch. / This session was really mellow, generous, unpretentious but really attentive. It was a boiling hot day and all of us, all 18 of our faces in squares on zoom, wilted and shared thoughts on the work. / Also if you are in London, really worth checking out https://kccuk.org.uk/en/