510 Reading Series
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Minás Gallery
815 W. 36th St.
Hampden (Baltimore), Maryland
5 p.m.
Readers: Larry Doyle, Jackie Corley and Linda Franklin
The 510 Reading Series is hosted by Michael Kimball (author of Dear Everybody) and Jen Michalski (author of Close Encounters).
Ananda Selah Osel interviewed me for the kick-ass poetry & interviews site, The CommonLine Project.
I did a super-short story and an interview for Nick Ostdick’s site. It was a lot of fun.
Check it out.
Nick edits RAGAD, a literary broadside and online magazine.
Here are some samples of David Barringer’s interior design for The Suburban Swindle:
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.
I can’t thank David Barringer enough. Look at the beautiful cover he designed for me:
“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
Ian Spiegelman gave me an awesome blurb for my forthcoming short story collection, The Suburban Swindle (So New Media):
“Finally a 20-something author who is neither precious nor coddled. Finally a young writer who writes about life as it actually is instead of some trust fund prick’s fantasy of America. Jackie Corley is almost completely alone among the new set of writers in that she is actually telling stories about real humans. And she is telling them well, with the kind of immediacy that most young writers have had beaten out of them in MFA factories. Corley is original and unforgiving. I cannot say enough about Jackie Corley. She doesn’t flinch. Read this book.”
-Ian Spiegelman, author Welcome to Yesterday and Everyone’s Burning
Kevin Sampsell gave me a great blurb for my short story collection:
“I am tempted to compare Jackie Corley’s writing to a strong cup of coffee. It wakes you up, it gets you addicted, and sometimes it’s burning hot. Or I could say it’s like whiskey–it’s strong, it blurs your vision, and gives you the guts to face the hard truths and bitter pains of life. But forget about those liquid comparisons, because Corley’s work is solid! The Suburban Swindle unleashes a new, bold, American voice that you’d be foolish to ignore.”
–Kevin Sampsell, author of Creamy Bullets
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