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Corey Mesler

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COREY MESLER has published in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Esquire/Narrative4 Project and Good Poems, American Places (Viking Press, 2011). He has published 9 novels, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue (2002), We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (2006), The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores (2010), Following Richard Brautigan (2010), Gardner Remembers (2011), Frank Comma and the Time-Slip (2012), Diddy-Wah-Diddy: A Beale Street Suite (2013), Memphis Movie (2015), Robert Walker (2016); 5 full length poetry collections, Some Identity Problems (2008), Before the Great Troubling (2011), Our Locust Years (2013), The Catastrophe of my Personality (2014), The Sky Needs More Work (2014); and 4 books of short stories, Listen: 29 Short Conversations ...more

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Memphis Movie

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Following Richard Brautigan

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Talk

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“I miss you because memory
is a kind editor.
The past is a long scroll and
in it is the story of us,
told with gentle metaphor, and
words that bring
you back and back, even as you
lie there, lying.”
Corey Mesler

“It was raining a motherfucker.
It was raining a Dostoyevsky novel.
It was raining a Kurosawa film.
It was raining a Trout Mask Repilca.”
Corey Mesler, Following Richard Brautigan

“His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything.”
Albert Camus

“Sometimes, when I couldn’t afford to pay the utility bill at the end of the month, I was forced to read by the light of the stories themselves.”
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“He did not know what to do. Not just now, he thought, not just in this, not just about this, today and tomorrow, but every day on the earth.”
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message 30: by Corey

Corey Majenta wrote: "Hello again, just want to say congratulations on ALL your books! I am impressed! Write on! Have a good tomorrow/next month!
Blessings!

Best wishes from Majenta"


Thanks so much. You did a lot of liking! Tell me your real name and place in the world.
best,
Corey


message 29: by Majenta

Majenta Hello again, just want to say congratulations on ALL your books! I am impressed! Write on! Have a good tomorrow/next month!
Blessings!

Best wishes from Majenta


message 28: by Majenta

Majenta Hello, Corey! Thank you so much for contacting me. I hope you are well and will have a great and productive week. Happy Monday, Happy Halloween. Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Blessings!
Best wishes from Majenta


message 27: by Corey

Corey s.penkevich wrote: "Thank you for the friend request!"

My pleasure.


s.penkevich [hiatus-will return-miss you all] Thank you for the friend request!


message 25: by Corey

Corey Robin wrote: "Thanks for the friendship Corey! Keep up the good writing and may your imagination and inspiration always run free!"

Robin wrote: "Thanks for the friendship Corey! Keep up the good writing and may your imagination and inspiration always run free!"

Thanks. Back atcha.


message 24: by Robin

Robin Craig Clark Thanks for the friendship Corey! Keep up the good writing and may your imagination and inspiration always run free!


message 23: by Corey

Corey Back atcha.


Christine Hatfield Thanks for being my friend


message 21: by Ed

Ed Thank you for the friend invite, Corey.


message 20: by Corey

Corey Jeffrey wrote: "hey corey;

congrats on your monkey puzzle showing!

jeff"


Jeffrey wrote: "hey corey;

congrats on your monkey puzzle showing!

jeff"


Thanks. It's a classy little production and I was happy to land in it.


message 19: by Jeffrey

Jeffrey hey corey;

congrats on your monkey puzzle showing!

jeff


Patricia Garlitz Thank You so much for adding me as a friend.


message 17: by c.vance

c.vance c.vance i agree with what you intended as an ironical statement. kooky that.


message 16: by Corey

Corey I understand how one hates to see too much positive feedback directed toward writers. They're such an undeserving lot.


message 15: by c.vance

c.vance c.vance Corey wrote: "Are you talking to me?"

yep.


message 14: by Corey

Corey Are you talking to me?


message 13: by c.vance

c.vance c.vance do you think that rating everything with such excessively high stars makes the act of rating them... benign? if everything is grand, is anything?


message 12: by Corey

Corey Oh and thanks for the friending as the young people say.


message 11: by Corey

Corey It is what I do. It is what I am.


message 10: by Lisa

Lisa See Wow! You're read a lot of books!


Jeannie Faulkner Barber Hello there Corey and thank so much for the friendship!
Smiles,
Jeannie


message 8: by Corey

Corey Good morning, Muffin. I do ok. Things are bright and shiny here. How's you?


message 7: by Elyse

Elyse Good morning Cheeky ... how are you?


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Corey Yes, that's me! We did talk on myspace. How you doing?


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Alexa Claire Hello! I remember you. We talked on Myspace a while ago, I believe. You own Burke's, right?


Bradley I hope you are having a good day! =)

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Rachel Corey, *you're* everywhere! =)


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