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Corey Mesler is the owner of Burke's Book Store, in
Memphis, Tennessee, one of the country's oldest (1875)
and best independent bookstores. is also a book
reviewer for The Memphis Commercial Appeal, The
Memphis Flyer, Brightleaf and BookPage.
Corey has published
poetry and fiction in numerous journals including
Orchid, Yellow Silk, Pindeldyboz, Green Egg, Black
Dirt, Thema, Mars Hill Review, Poet Lore and others. A short story of his has been chosen for the 2002
edition of New Stories from the South: The Year's
Best, edited by Shannon Ravenel, published by
Algonquin Books.
Corey's first novel, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue, appeared in
2002. He also claims to have written "I'm Not Your
Stepping Stone." Most importantly, he is Toby and
Chloe's dad and Cheryl's husband.
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So much ballyhoo has preceded this new British group it may be hard for reviewers such as myself to separate the hype from the music. This is the first stateside album by the four young men from Liverpool, England who call themselves The Beatles, presumably misspelling the word with an 'a' to make a play on words, as in "beat" music. (I have heard that there was an earlier release on a smaller label but, as of this writing, I cannot ascertain what that would have been.)
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Two weeks in the new neighborhood and Jim had not met anyone who lived nearby. He only existed in the world, it seemed, between his car and the front door. He had gamboled into the backyard a few times, but it was a tight space with a high fence, almost the kind of yard one would expect to find in the inner city. Jim was the type of neighbor who waited until no one was outside before venturing out to get the morning paper. A small-talker he was not.
So, it was the most fortuitous of coincidences when he ran into the blond college student across the street. She was putting a stereo into her hatchback as he emerged from his car one afternoon.
"Shit," he heard her say into her underarm.
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