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Two novels, two different presses,
one simultaneous release date:
3/31/10
Shhh, keep this quiet but you can already order Following Richard Brautigan
(as of 2/22/10) only at www.burkesbooks.com. Can be ordered signed or inscribed, hardback or paperback.
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| Due in March 2010 from Bronx River Press |
THE BALLAD OF THE TWO TOM MORES: A TALE OF SEX AND MURDER
Due out Spring 2010.
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
My reading from The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores, on you tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJXBcaPlmlg
Bronx River Press: http://www.bronxriverpress.com/
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The astonishing video Rebecca Tickle made to accompany my reading the opening sections of the novel:
Advance plugs for my novel, Following Richard Brautigan, due out March 31st, 2010 from Livingston Press, the
exact same day The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores is due out from Bronx River Press:
PLUGS FOR FOLLOWING RICHARD BRAUTIGAN:
“One always wonders, "What if?" What if Richard
Brautigan had taken his own advice and not gone joy riding in the beautiful car called death. What if he had lived,
and kept writing, long into the age where flowing digits replaced the winsome flowers. Brautigan, maven of the San Francisco
countercultural zeitgeist, would have surely continued to write his spare themes of love, death, and how we are haunted by
both. Surely also, he would have embraced the Internet, publishing his episodic narratives in blogs, chats, and other social
networking spaces, holding us all in anticipation, waiting for the next installment. His poetic prose would have shimmered
on our screens like cathedrals made from the crystal bones of birds. Alas, Richard, we hardly knew ye . . . But wait, here's
Corey Mesler, broken hearted, adrift between the living and the dead, lost, and like so many others, he finds a connection
with Brautigan, a lampost on a foggy street, always, magically, lighting the way to the next corner, and beyond. Mesler's
novel, Following Richard Brautigan, answers the "what if" regarding novels Brautigan might have written. Uniquely individual
in style and voice, yet resonating with the tone and whimsy of Brautigan, Mesler's novel is a paen of the highest order, not
to mention a travelogue of his own inner journey. Brautigan is there, every step of the way, often directing the eccentric
life adventures meant to throw off the allure of death, even though he is but a ghost himself, a spirit with a mission in
death as he was in life. If you know and appreciate Brautigan, read this book. Give it to your friends. Turn them on to both
Brautigan and Mesler, who has surely taken up the torch left burning in the hallway of Brautigan's dark seaside house, and
gone exploring the upstairs rooms.”
--John Barber, Archivist and Curator, Brautigan Bibliography and
Archive, and author of Richard Brautigan: Essays on the Writings and Life
“Corey Mesler has summoned up all the sad lost innocence and wry humor
of the best of Brautigan. It’s a wistful, haunting novel that makes you laugh out loud, too.’
--Thomas Dyja, author of Meet John Trow and The Moon in Our Hands
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