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New review at Literary Kicks
Mikael Covey reviews The Suburban Swindle for Lit Kicks:
“These are power words that Jackie Corley writes. Come screaming atcha from inside your head, a white hot poker stuck in your mind’s eye. Emotion raw and real, honest as it gets. … Words as emotions transcending literal meaning to an inner storm of feeling. Where it hurts, or where there is love, lust, desire, longing. A bursting forth of the moment, the augenblink. All of that, being young and feeling old. Feeling all of it slip sliding away like quicksand, and drowning in our own unfulfilled needs.”
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HTMLGIANT on World Takes
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Review at <HTMLGIANT>
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Aw schucks
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decomP Editor-in-Chief Jason Jordan named The Suburban Swindle the best collection of 2008. I got to meet Jason in Pittsburgh last week. Great dude. He reminded me a lot of the guys I used to hang out with in high school. I’ve had Powering the Devil’s Circus on my shelf for far too long. (It’s
Many things
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Shome Dasgupta wrote an incredibly kind review about The Suburban Swindle for the footnote. —- Pittsburgh turned out to be a far more vibrant town than I had expected. The drive there and back was kind of hell, if hell was a really, really long turnpike. The central Pa. landscape was pretty damn mountainous and
Reading in Pittsburgh on Dec. 17
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The New Yinzer presents… Reading Series Jessica Fenlon (poetry), Jackie Corley (fiction) and Lottery Puffs (music) Wednesday, Dec. 17 at 8 p.m. Modernformations Gallery 4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA
Write-up in The Reading Experience
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Daniel Green wrote a pretty lengthy post on The Suburban Swindle: “One might say that the ‘radical exclusion’ manifest in these stories goes beyond the implicit narrowing of focus to be found in all short stories and extends to the exclusion of any extraneous plot devices and gestures at character ‘depth’ that inhibit immediacy of
Review at bookmunch
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Katherine Woodfine reviewed The Suburban Swindle for bookmunch. Here are some highlights: ‘…there is no doubt that ultimately the most powerful voices are those of the (often anonymous) female narrators – young women who may see themselves as just “some guy’s girlfriend” yet who are nevertheless sharp-eyed, unflinching observers. Though they share the tangible sense
Reading at Bluestockings
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Who: Marty Beckerman, Nick Antosca and Jackie Corley When: Wednesday, October 22 @ 7 p.m. Where: Bluestockings 172 Allen Street, New York, NY About: Jackie Corley (The Suburban Swindle), Nick Antosca (Fires, Midnight Picnic) and Marty Beckerman (Generation S.L.U.T., Dumbocracy) read from their new books of cutting-edge fiction and political satire. More info: Bluestockings event
The Suburban Swindle is now available on Amazon
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You can pre-order my book on Amazon.com here. But pre-ordering directly from my publisher means So New gets more of a cut, so please support small press and order direct from them.
