The novel TALK is nouveau sexy, nouveau comic, nouveau chic, nouveau neurashthenic--it's just plain nouveau nouveau as we follow Jim, sesquipedalian owner of a fashionable bookstore who's undergoing just a wee bit of a mid-age crisis. . . .
COREY MESLER has published in numerous journals and anthologies. He has published four novels, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue (2002), We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (2006), The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores (2010) and Following Richard Brautigan (2010), a full length poetry collection, Some Identity Problems (2008), and a book of short stories, Listen: 29 Short Conversations (2009). 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. His work has received praise from Lee Smith, Frederick Barthelme, John Grisham, Tom Franklin, Steve Stern, Suzanne Kingsbury, Miles Gibson, Robert Olen Butler, among others. He also claims to have written, "Your Auntie Grizelda." With his wife, he runs Burke's Book Store, one of the country's oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He can be found at www.coreymesler.com.
