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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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