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Corey’s 2025 Year in Books
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Corey Mesler
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in Niagara Falls NY, The United States
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Raymond Carver, James Tate, Frank O'Hara, Donald Barthelme, Steve Ster
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February 2008
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https://www.goodreads.com/coreymesler
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Memphis Movie
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2008
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Following Richard Brautigan
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2005
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Talk
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2002
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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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2005
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I'll Give You Something to Cry About: A Gathering of Stories
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2011
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The Hole in Sleep
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2006
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Notes Toward The Story and other stories (2013)
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2011
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Listen: Twenty-nine Short Conversations
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2008
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The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores: A Novel of Sex and Murder
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2010
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Diddy-Wah-Diddy: A Beale Street Suite
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2013
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Corey’s Recent Updates
"So here's the thing: half the humans in this book swear and fuck with vigor, you know, as well-adjusted humans tend to do, and the other half are Catholic priests, who must resist in the name of God. But lust is not so easily repressed—as Catholic pr"
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman:
"A Novel That Refuses to Tell Its Story
'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman' was a big surprise to me as I did not have the slightest idea what kind of book I was starting to read. The form is extraordinary - you encounter plenty of in" Read more of this review » |
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| An excellent book about movies and an excellent book about Scorsese, whom Ebert calls our greatest living director. It's slightly repetitive because he reviews the same movie twice, sometimes three times, but this is a minor quibble. For now, this is ...more | |
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One of my favorite poets. “Poem that opened you— The opposite of a wound. Didn’t the world Come pouring through?” |
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One of my favorite poets. “Poem that opened you— The opposite of a wound. Didn’t the world Come pouring through?” |
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| This is an odd book, part novel, part travel diary, part history. It's a singular work. The closest comparison I can make is to Bruce Chatwin, but this book is dreamier. The 'story' is built of digression, even more so than Tristram Shandy. It's also ...more | |
“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.”
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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.”
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“It was raining a motherfucker.
It was raining a Dostoyevsky novel.
It was raining a Kurosawa film.
It was raining a Trout Mask Repilca.”
― Following Richard Brautigan
It was raining a Dostoyevsky novel.
It was raining a Kurosawa film.
It was raining a Trout Mask Repilca.”
― 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.”
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“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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“I’m on a government watch list. But I’m not interested, because government watches only work twenty minutes out of every hour.”
― At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.
― At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.
“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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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
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
s.penkevich wrote: "Thank you for the friend request!"My pleasure.
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Thank you for the friend request!
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.
Thanks for the friendship Corey! Keep up the good writing and may your imagination and inspiration always run free!
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.
hey corey;congrats on your monkey puzzle showing!
jeff
Thank You so much for adding me as a friend.
i agree with what you intended as an ironical statement. kooky that.
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?
Oh and thanks for the friending as the young people say.
Hello there Corey and thank so much for the friendship!Smiles,
Jeannie
Good morning, Muffin. I do ok. Things are bright and shiny here. How's you?
Yes, that's me! We did talk on myspace. How you doing?
Hello! I remember you. We talked on Myspace a while ago, I believe. You own Burke's, right?
thanks for the ad Corey. loking forward in taklking with you soon. have a playful day! Michele Marchettihttp://www.discoverytoyslink.com/mich...
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