The World Is Neither Stacked for Nor Against You - Softcover

Mesler, Corey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604893672 ISBN 13: 9781604893670

Verlag: Livingston Press at the University of West Al, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

The World is Neither Stacked for Nor Against You is a book of disparate parts, a sort of Frankenstein monster of a collection. And indeed, there is a monster story, as well as a ghost story, an angel story, a mystical religious story, and a mystical secular story. Some of the work is experimental, some of it is outlandish, and some of it is as simple and comforting as a home-baked pie. Its stories are made of gypsum, bituminous coal, red bricks and whimsy. They are equal parts crassitude and chimera. The final one, "Publisher," the book’s longest, concerns a man working for a vanity press who discovers "the real thing," a novel he is convinced will blast a hole in the complacency of modern literature. About "Publisher," John Grisham said, "It’s not only funny and clever, it reminded me of the first 80 pages of Sophie’s Choice. Great work." The stories have previously appeared in The Pinch, Orchid, Ghoti, Gargoyle and other fine periodicals, as well as story collections published by a handful of sincere, frabjous, small presses.

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COREY MESLER has been published in numerous anthologies andjournals including Poetry, Gargoyle, Five Points, Good Poems American Places,and New Stories from the South. He has published over 25 books of bothpoetry and prose. His novel, Memphis Movie, attracted kind words fromAnn Beattie, Peter Coyote, and William Hjorstberg, among others. He'sbeen nominated for the Pushcart many times, and three of his poemswere chosen for Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac. He also wrote thescreenplay for We Go On, which won The Memphis Film Prize in 2017.With his wife he runs Burke's Book Store in Memphis (est. 1875).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Livingston Press at the University of West Al
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1604893672
• ISBN 13: 9781604893670
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 294
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