Corey Mesler's New Collection of Stories: 29 Short Conversations

Corey Mesler's new collection of stories, Listen: 29 Short Conversations (Brown Paper
Publishing, $14 paperback) is now available. To order a copy you
may do so by emailing the author directly (resolemcrey@yahoo.com), or calling Burke’s Books (901-278-7484) or off Amazon.com.

Listen is a collection of short fiction, continuing the exploration of
dialogue narrative begun in my novel, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue
(Livingston Press, 2002). Listen: 27 Short Conversations is based
around many modes of interaction and its characters include a wannabe
writer, a wannabe musician, the ghost of John Lennon, a talking TV,
Jesus Christ, King Arthur and a man who has been turned into a giant
hen.

“A virtuoso performance! Realism, monster stories, sex stories, love
stories, ghost stories, myths and legends, comedy both understated and
openly absurdist: in a literary atmosphere that fetishizes blandness
and sameness, such a broad range of ambition and accomplishment is a
brave and astonishing act. Pure fun from beginning to end.”
                                                --Pinckney Benedict, author of Dogs of God