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New story at dispatch litareview
Jun 3rd
…called Low Tide Gurgling Against the Breeze (title courtesy of dispatch litareview editor P.H. Madore).
The piece is an excerpt of the novel manuscript I’m working on now. I’m tentatively calling the novel Fine Creature. We’ll have to see what it becomes.
Thinking about all the awesome books I should read next term. I’ll be studying under Amy Hempel. Rock.
New reviews
May 9th
Hipster Book Club on Nick Antosca’s Midnight Picnic:
“This might be the scariest thing about the book, the essential thing that all scary books need: the conviction that, for as long as you are reading the story, the world is inescapably dark, and all one’s experiences that would say otherwise are simply tricks or misunderstandings. The feeling of relief on putting the book down after its satisfying ending—of seeing that it’s light out and your loved ones are alive—is followed by a nagging feeling that one has missed something. There might be dead people right in front of the reader’s face, in a space stained by trauma.”
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P.H. Madore reviews The Suburban Swindle:
“These are stories which even Bruce Springsteen wouldn’t want to tell. Mostly gritty and realist: the kind of stories I love. Corley flexes some real descriptive power… Yes, The Suburban Swindle is full of the stories of street punks and noir beauties–probably the stuff of real New Jersey, not the New Jersey I’ve seen on television. I don’t know. I just know that I liked the way she painted her youthful characters and did this without apology.”
One of the first times P.H. Madore emailed me was to say that some of Word Riot’s design was lame and that I should take down the animated GIF ads I had up. That got my attention. I don’t get insulting emails very often or if I do they’re just lame and emotional and don’t have a point. I thought P.H. had balls to say that, and he was right. I took down the crappy ads.
I was nervous when I saw on Goodreads that Madore was reading The Suburban Swindle. I knew if he thought it sucked he wouldn’t have qualms about saying so. I’m glad he liked the collection.
All I got are dollars
Apr 3rd
I should carry cash more. I suck at blogging. All I can do is shout out self-promotional lists at you people. And, but, so…
1) Josh Maday’s review of The Suburban Swindle at New Pages:
“Corley has a superlative ear for the music of language. Her lines and rhythms are rich, lyrical, and energetic, carrying the reader along and juxtaposing interestingly with the tension in the stories themselves, reflecting the tension within the characters, between the hard façade and the longing lonely vulnerability behind it… Jackie Corley’s writing captures and conveys the impassable conflict of being human at every level.”
2) Reading in Providence in two weeks organized by William Walsh, author of Questionstruck:
Myopic Books
5 S. Angell Street
Wayland Square
Providence, RI
Saturday, April 18 @ 7 p.m.
Readers: Jackie Corley, Timmy Waldron and Brian James Foley
3) P.H. Madore’s dispatch litareview lives. I have a book excerpt appearing there soon. I got paid in real world dollars – ten of ‘em.
4) So New Publishing introduced the So New Writers Prize. The winner gets their novella published in a limited run of hand-bound books.
5) Contracts are rolling in for the not-so-secret-but-I’m-not-telling-yet anthology that Word Riot Press will publish in Spring 2010. Big names attached to this one.
6) Timmy Waldron has a story appearing as part of genius ml press publisher j.a. tyler’s Stamps Stories project.
7) Tobias Carroll interviewed Nick Antosca over at the scowl
I got Keyhole’s handwritten issue in the mail and thoroughly had my mind blown.
9) I like the look on the face of the old lady on the subway when Blake Butler curses:
I’m a character
Dec 11th
P.H. Madore wrote a story featuring a bunch of lit folk as characters and I was included. I do weird things like this:
I don’t have an iPhone. I have an iPod touch. I do indeed check my e-mail from it ALL the time. Eerie.
As the lit world turns
Nov 1st
Thieves Jargon editor Matt DiGangi blogged about the passing of Zygote in My Coffee.
The comments section has a pretty fiery back and forth between SmokeLong Quarterly’s Dave Clapper and writer P.H. Madore.

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