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COREY MESLER BUZZ
About The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores
"Corey Mesler's writing is scary,
funny, smart, and deeply twisted. There's nobody else
like him." – Tom Piazza, author of City of
Refuge and Why New Orleans Matters
"Fast-paced and funny, ripe with
literary references, wry snappy humor and surprising
turns of phrase, Corey Mesler's The Ballad of The
Two Tom Mores pulls the reader inexorably along.
In the fictional town of Queneau, Arkansas, there
exists a salaciously sexy labyrinth of characters
that even Faulkner would have been proud to create.
Mesler's humorous ballad ends with a surprising
twist. You will emerge slightly tweaked—and better
for it." – Suzanne Kingsbury, author of The Summer
Fletcher Greel Loved Me
"The Ballad of the Two Tom
Mores is a riot from start to finish. Witty,
ribald, sometimes profound and sometimes ridiculous,
it will frequently make you laugh out loud and
sometimes lead you to scratch your head in
contemplation. It is an unvarnished, unapologetic
glimpse of small-town Southern life, as raw and
sexually charged as something out of Erskine
Caldwell. At the same time, it is a story that is
always told with a grin and a wink by a narrator who
is chuckling from beginning to end. With patience and
confidence, Corey Mesler manages to pull off a lovely
double feat, writing a novel that is both a steamy
Southern sex-and-violence page-turner and a gentle
mockery of the genre." – Greg Downs, author of
Flannery O'Connor Award Winner Spit Baths
"A turgid bratwurst of a story
slathered in bawdy humor? A confederacy of Arkansas
dunces? Ah, hell, this strange, hilarious novel needs
a new vocabulary to describe it. Half yarn, half
romp, half acid trip, a yawp combined with a Tarzan
yell? Ah, double hell. Just read this book." – Tom
Franklin, author of Hell at the Breech
About Talk: A Novel in Dialogue
"Talk is original and
evocative. Mesler has a sharp ear not only for how we
say things, but, more importantly, for what the words
really mean. A unique reading experience." – John
Grisham
"Corey Mesler’s Talk is a
brilliant tour de force of a novel, witty and wise
and zingy with the zeitgeist. This is indeed an
auspicious fiction debut." – Robert Olen Butler
About We Are Billion-Year Carbon
"Corey Mesler’s exuberant, spaced-out
love letter to the 1960s—and to his hometown of
Memphis—gives renewed meaning to the phrase, “Far
out!” Invoking the ghosts of Richard Farina, William
Kotzwinkle, Richard Brautigan (who appears!), and
Thomas Pynchon at his most whimsically stoned, We
Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon, with its
cut-and-paste assemblage of poems, stories, and
memoirs, deftly captures both the innocent charm and
the dark menace of the period." – Marshall Boswell,
author of Alternative Atlanta
"It’s a beautiful, quirky, spooky,
rhythmic, hilarious and sneakily moving piece of
work." – M. Allen Cunningham, author of The Green
Age of Asher Witherow
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