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Corey Mesler
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July 20, 1955
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Following Richard Brautigan
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Memphis
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2008
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Listen: 29 Short Conversations
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The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores: A Tale of Sex and Murder
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Some Identity Problems
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2008
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Talk: A Novel in Dialogue
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We Are Billion Year Old Carbon: A Tribal-Love-Rock-Novel Set in the Sixties on an Outpost Planet Called Memphis
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I'll Give You Something to Cry about: A Gathering of Stories
by Corey Mesler (Goodreads Author), Debra Jones-Jackson 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Grit
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The Hole in Sleep
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My new novel. It's really good. “Corey Mesler’s new novel takes its template from Jann Wenner’s Lennon Remembers, the epic, soul-baring interview conducted for Rolling Stone in 1970. The interview subject here is Buddy Gardner, a fictional 60s music...more |
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"My favorite is "1982 Janine" but I hear that "Lanark" is his best. I've yet to get to that one.
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"Wonderful novel. I read this on my honeymoon (my 2nd honeymoon, the one that counts) and it will always hold a special place in my heart.
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| This is not only a brilliant semi-biographical novel about F. Scott Fitzgerald but it's also one of the best novels ever written about Hollywood. | |
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“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
― 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.”
― Steve Stern
― Steve Stern
“I’m on a government watch list. But I’m not interested, because government watches only work twenty minutes out of every hour.
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― Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.
― Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.
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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.
I understand how one hates to see too much positive feedback directed toward writers. They're such an undeserving lot.
do you think that rating everything with such excessively high stars makes the act of rating them... benign? if everything is grand, is anything?
thanks for the ad Corey. loking forward in taklking with you soon. have a playful day! Michele Marchettihttp://www.discoverytoyslink.com/mich...
