Books by Author Corey Mesler

by Corey Mesler
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Memphis Movie

A Novel
Corey Mesler, 2015
“I’ve read any number of books about the movies. I’ve never before read one that I sent to my publisher who bought it faster than he bought mine. Corey Mesler is an undiscovered treasure. This book screams to be a movie. The role of Dan Yumont, the drug-addled priapic hero is waiting for a super-star with the balls to do it. Brad? Colin? Sean? Johnny? The characters are sharp, smart, and funny. I was sorry when I finished it. So I started it over again.” --Peter Coyote, star of E.T. and Northfork, and author of Sleeping Where I Fall

Talk

A Novel in Dialogue
Corey Mesler, 2002
“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

We Are a Billion Year Old Carbon

Corey Mesler, 2006
"If this was music, it'd be a slippery, jazzy 'Green Onions' with a sitar break played by Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, using the edge of his dictionary for a pick." --Marshall Chapman, author of Sweet Little Rock and Roller

Following Richard Brautigan

Corey Mesler, 2010
“If you love Richard Brautigan you'll have fun reading Corey Mesler's fictional tribute, Following Richard Brautigan. I’m going trout fishing today for short stories about water.” --Alice Hoffman, author of Seventh Heaven and The River King

Before the Great Troubling: Poems

Corey Mesler, 2011
“His poems…are small boxes—compressed, cryptic, full of insight and sorrow, full of wit and tenderness. Before the Great Troubling offers a quirky, wise, and memorable picture of life in our shadow-filled century.” --Ann Fisher-Wirth, author of Carta Marina, A Poem in Three

Diddy Wah Diddy

A Beale Street Suite
Corey Mesler, 2013
“Corey Mesler writes riotous prose--fluid and lush and crazy. It's verbally rich and witty--half literary, half hoodoo. Imagine James Joyce on Beale Street with Elvis. Or something like that. Wacky but poignant!”--Bobbie Ann Mason, author of The Girl in the Blue Beret and Shiloh and Other Stories

Our Locust Years

Corey Mesler, 2013
“Corey Mesler is a poet of intimacy and honesty with a gift for memorable lines and phrases such as “a chapel shaped like a farm” and “She entered my life / like a battered dresser, all / drawers open . . .” His poems are intimate, wistful, and often erotic. Though he does not go out of his way to establish settings and a sense of location, his poems are subtly and yet unmistakably evocative of the city where he lives, particularly of midtown Memphis. Everyone who owns a book or two by Peter Taylor, who loves the music of Booker T. and MGs and Jessie Winchester, will want to have Corey Mesler on their bookshelves.” --Richard Tillinghast, author of Today in the Cafe Trieste and The Stonecutter's Hand

The Adventures of Camel Jeremy Eros

Corey Mesler, 2020
"Rascally on the page, subversive in spirit and style, Corey Mesler just may be Memphis’ answer to Ken Kesey. Here is a rip-snorting, picaresque tale of the Bluff City from the fifties and sixties that will make most Memphians smile—and will make non-Memphians wonder what the hell they’ve been missing." —Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Hellhound On His Trail

Camel's Bastard Son

Corey Mesler, 2019
"Camel's Bastard Son is a pure delight. So disarming and inventive and funny and sparkling with Mesler's unique gift for metaphor. The dialogue is to die for--wish I could write dialogue of such comic poignancy, or poignant comedy." --Steve Stern, author of The Frozen Rabbi and the Jewish Book Award-winning The Wedding Jester