Jackie Corley Writer, indie publisher, vagabond

Here are some samples of David Barringer’s interior design for The Suburban Swindle:

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I know I am way overdue on a Pilcrow Lit Fest post.

Amy Guth put on a fantastic weekend that went off without a hitch. I got to hang out with James Stegall, Kevin Sampsell, Nick Ostdick, Steve Himmer, Kevin Fanning, Lauren Cerand, Jami Attenberg, Jennifer Banash, Willy Blackmore, Zach Dodson and Jonathan Messinger (and a bunch of other folks I’ll remember and want to put down on this list later).

There was pizza. There were drinks. There was really, really cheap parking (a quarter an hour!)

There was this constant energy about the whole weekend. The panels were insightful. The Quimby’s reading was well-attended. And, perhaps best of all, the silent auction raised $4,000 for the New Orleans Public Library Foundation. The money will go to helping them rebuild in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

For a more details about what went down at Pilcrow, check out Amy’s blog.

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The Perfect Father’s Day Gift

$12 (free shipping) for American Home Life, a comic novel of suburban fatherhood.

Pay by PayPal to account “dlbarringer@gmail.com,” and include your shipping address.

Father’s Day is June 15.

It’s not every day that I find a book I love. David Barringer, a designer and author featured in Emigre, AIGA Voice, and countless other publications, explores the challenges of postmodern society with his novel, American Home Life. Barringer examines a couple’s playful attempt to raise two well rounded children, while preventing them from being trapped by greed, envy and the monotony of suburban life. The book jacket calls it the “literary equivalent of a TV sitcom,” which would make sense if sitcoms were smart, funny and addictive.–Stacy Cottrell, San Diego AIGA

We all have our lists of writers we love, those writers that not everyone in the world knows about but should. A great, talented writer deserves to be known to everyone, which is one reason why you should read the work of David Barringer. David’s latest book is the novel American Home Life, which is described as a “comic novel about contemporary suburban fatherhood,” but it’s so much more, and it’s amazing.–Bob Sassone, Professor Barnhardt’s Journal

“Edgy, funny, and heartfelt, with a smidgen of George Saunders and a touch of Aimee Bender, Barringer’s American Home Life is an original American confection: bittersweet, satisfying and true.”—Dave Housely, Barrelhouse

“A literary force to be reckoned with. Barringer’s work reminds me of the offspring of Larry Brown and George Saunders, with more pathos.”—Nathan Leslie, The Pedestal Magazine

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Word Riot Press’ Mind Games, a short story collection by David Gianatasio, is now available for pre-order.

The book costs $10 and will be available September 2008.

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Prose by Patricia Abbott, Linda Boroff, Scott Boyan, Gretchen Clark, Sean Cunningham, Steve Finbow, Heather Fowler, Scott Hughes, Stephanie Johnson, Mike Jones, Anthony J. Mohr, Gary Moshimer, Jill Mountain and Aliya Whiteley

Poetry by Vince Anello, Julia Colterjohn, Linda Delmonico Prussen, Justin Hyde, Steven Kunert, David LaBounty, Dave Morrison, Crisanta Pantoja, Kellie Powell, Jeri Rafter, Douglas Silver, Michelle Tandoc-Pichereau, Allison Tobey and Ami Vaughn

Reviews of Digging the Vein by Tony O’Neill and The Meter Is Running & We’re Almost Out Of Change by Ananda Selah Osel.

Plus, another installment of Your Main Readerman 4: Mad Libs Edition by Timmy Waldron

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You can now pre-order my short story collection, The Suburban Swindle, over at my publisher’s site.

Price is $10 plus $2.50 shipping.

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I can’t thank David Barringer enough. Look at the beautiful cover he designed for me:

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“Sharp, bold, and deeply affecting, Jackie Corley’s stories are like poetry made from the gritty stuff of hard-scrabble life. Dead garden snakes and forgotten video games, gravestone statues that seem to dance in the night: in Corley’s able hands, the mundane, even the ugly, are transformed. The young men and women who struggle through her slim, piercing collection, stay with you long after you’ve finished reading; tough-talking and scarred, tattooed and tender, they search Corley’s dirty, sparkling New Jersey streets for something always just out of reach.

“A fiercely original debut. Corley is a talent to watch.”

-Scott Snyder, author of Voodoo Heart

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I played around with my calculator and came up with these Word Riot submission stats for April 2008:

Submissions: 195
Rejected: 144
Accepted: 25
Pending/Withdrawn/Jackie’s bad math: 26

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I updated a bunch of pages on this site, including Articles/Interviews, Now (which existed in a state of suspended animation for like a year), Readings, Reviews/Blurbs and Writing.

Also, all posted news on The Suburban Swindle has been tagged and has it’s own page here.

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I did a couple interviews that recently got posted:

1. Pilcrow Lit Fest blog
2. Absolute Write

Also, I went to the KGB Bar on Friday night and caught the tail end of this reading. I met Tony O’Neill, Lee Rourke, Mikael Covey and Mark Edmund Doten for the first time. There were drinks. There was writer talk. There was Mars Bar. Covey did a write up of the evening over at Lit Up Magazine.

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