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Corey Mesler

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COREY MESLER has published in numerous journals and anthologies. He has published five 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), and Gardner Remembers (2011), 2 full length poetry collections, Some Identity Problems (2008) and Before the Great Troubling (2011), and 3 books of short stories, Listen: 29 Short Conversations (2009), Notes toward the Story and Other Stories (2011) and I’ll Give You Something to Cry About (2011). He has also published a dozen chapbooks of both poetry and prose. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize numerous times, and two of his poems have been chosen for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. He...more


Average rating: 4.53 · 290 ratings · 86 reviews · 44 distinct works · Similar authors
Following Richard Brautigan
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions
Memphis
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2008
Listen: 29 Short Conversations
4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions
The Ballad of the Two Tom M...
4.42 of 5 stars 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
Talk: A Novel in Dialogue
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions
Some Identity Problems
4.88 of 5 stars 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
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4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
Grit
4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009
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4.57 of 5 stars 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011
The Hole in Sleep
4.57 of 5 stars 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions
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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 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 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 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?


message 6: by Corey

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?


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


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