It looks like So New Media will be putting out a collection of my stuff in the spring. It’ll be called ‘The Suburban Swindle‘ after a story I wrote a few years ago. I still like that title. The collection will have short stories and a couple novel excerpts.
Still working out the details, and I have to edit and send off the complete manuscript to SNM publisher James Stegall, but I’m pretty excited about this. Should be fun.
This post was written by Jackie Corley on November 21, 2007
I’m still reading The Naked and the Dead, but I’m 480 pages into a 680 page book so I’ll forgive myself for it. It’s one of the best books I’ve read in years–really expansive and gorgeous and psychologically rich. I love any novel that’s brutal, brooding, full-fleshed Americana.
Some random googling says Norman Mailer was born in Long Branch, which while technically not a part of my beloved Bayshore, is close enough to add even more to my new found Mailer fondess.
When I’m done reading, I’m going to write Norman Mailer a rambling letter he will never get. That will be fun. I did the same thing with J.D. Salinger once. (And I call bull shit on Salinger getting commandeered for the literary hipster pandemic.)
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This post was written by Jackie Corley on October 1, 2007
This WHYY radio interview with Karl “King” Wenclas of the Underground Literary Alliance and Carla Spataro of Philadelphia Stories in really good:
[Click for Real Media file] (via Timmy Waldron, via Philadelphia Stories)
(Judging by the commercials, it sounds like it’s from a month ago.)
King is in top form in the interview, so it’s well worth a listen. I don’t know Carla Spataro but she held up well against Wenclas and made some excellent points.
I like the ULA. I don’t agree with them all the time, but I like them. I did a ULA reading a couple years ago in this anarchist bar in Philly and it was probably the best lit event I’ve ever been to. All the readers varied in their writing and performance styles and that’s not something you see at most readings. Like, there were slam poets mixed in with short story writers, guys who were so sucked into their words that they spat and shouted their lines and guys who read in a straight monotone. There were just all different types of people. It felt very spontaneous, a little bit lunatic asylum. It was great.
This post was written by Jackie Corley on September 7, 2007
I just wanted to thank the readers at last night’s launch party for The Flash. Nathan Tyree, Paul Blaney and Andrew Lewis Conn each did an incredible job.
Thanks also to everyone who came out to the KGB Bar. I was pleasantly surprised by the turn-out and the interest level in the anthology.
Copies of The Flash are now available for purchase at Word Riot. All proceeds go to Amnesty International.
This post was written by Jackie Corley on July 23, 2007
I’m reading The Naked and the Dead and I’m totally in love.
Mailer wrote when he was 23, which is kind of seismic when you start realize the psychological depth of the people, the situations you’re eavesdropping on. You start to feel like this ghost hovering around these bored, rundown soldiers kicking around sand on some hot, damp island off of Japan. And each character is made full in a couple of paragraphs of description or the brief memory of some seemingly dull and insignificant incident back home. Total grace, I swear.
Mailer wrote in the author intro that he drew on a lot of Tolstoy as he was writing it. The influence is pretty apparent as you read it.
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This post was written by Jackie Corley on July 20, 2007
Caren Lissner, author of Carrie Philby and fellow rockin Jersey gal, gave me some advance praise for the book:
AT THE SLAUGHTER is as compelling a story as it is a feat of brillant writing. It’s a gritty story of the heartbreak and hope of a life-changing event experienced when young, a person who changes another forever.
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This post was written by Jackie Corley on June 4, 2007
My friend and ex-college suitemate Alex caught a Chuck Palahniuk hamburger in Chicago.
She explains here.
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This post was written by Jackie Corley on May 22, 2007
Soft Skull books are going to be 40% off until June 30th when they officially join Counterpoint.
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This post was written by Jackie Corley on May 21, 2007
Galleycat reports that Soft Skull has been bought by Winston, Shoemaker & Co., LLC.
Wow. I wonder what this will mean.
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This post was written by Jackie Corley on May 17, 2007
You can now order The Flash on Amazon.com. Yay!
Book description: The Flash edited by Peter Wild. 100 writers 100 stories. The authors of the book elected to have Amnesty International receive all proceeds from the publication.
Authors: Hiag Akmakjian, Steve Almond, Darran Anderson, Steve Aylett, Aimee Bender, Paul Blaney, Nicholas Blincoe, Dermot Bolger, Christopher Brookmyre, Rhonda Carrier, Matthew Cheney, Lana Citron, Christopher Coake, Femke Colborne, Andrew Lewis Conn, Jackie Corley, Simon Crump, Mitch Cullin, Matthew De Abaitua, Paul Di Filippo, Clare Dudman, Stella Duffy, Patricia Duncker, Katherine Dunn, Mark Dunn, Fred Dutton, Susan Elderkin, Richard Evans, Percival Everett, Michel Faber, Kitty Fitzgerald, James Flint, Jeffrey Ford, Ray Fracalossy, Damon Galgut, Avital Gad-Cykman, Sara Gran, Niall Griffiths, Matt Haig, Andrew Holmes, Laird Hunt, Shelley Jackson, Nick Johnstone, Nic Kelman, Danny King, Daren King, Joel Lane, Stewart Lee, J Robert Lennon, Jonathan Lethem, Samuel Ligon, Sam Lipsyte, Lila Lundquist, Kevin MacNeil, Emily Maguire, Scott Mebus, Carlton Mellick III, Stephen McCauley, Lauren Milne Henderson, Denise Mina, Rick Moody, Ewan Morrison, Nicola Mostyn, Erin C Murphy, Ben Myers, Patrick Neate, Arthur Nersesian, Gina Ochsner, Martin Ouvry, Shiromi Pinto, Kate Pullinger, Rebbecca Ray, Ben Richards, Nicholas Royle, Kevin Sampsell, Kevin Sampson, Ian Sansom, Matthew David Scott, Jeremy Sheldon, Robert Sheppard, Stav Sherez, Steven Sherrill, Shelley Silas, Kevin Spaide, Nick Stone, Brandon Stosuy, Chad Taylor, Matt Thorne, Bob Thurber, Nathan Tyree, Jeff VanderMeer, Willy Vlautin, Daniel Wallace, Jess Walter, Peter Wild, Charlie Williams, Conrad Williams, John Williams, Cintra Wilson, Barry Yourgrau
This post was written by Jackie Corley on May 4, 2007
