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Reading at Morningside Bookshop
01318 days
I’ll be reading with Tony O’Neill at the Morningside Bookshop in the next couple weeks. Here’s the info:
Who: Tony O’Neill & Jackie Corley
Where: Morningside Bookshop
2915 Broadway, New York, NY
When: Thursday, October 16 @ 7 p.m.
Tony O’Neill’s books include Digging the Vein, Seizure Wet Dreams, Songs from the Shooting Gallery, and the New York Times bestselling Hero of the Underground. His essays, poems, and short stories have appeared extensively online and in print. He is a survivor of heroin addiction, crack abuse, rehab, fatherhood, and stints in the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Kenickie, and Marc Almond’s band. He lives in New York with his wife and daughter. His novel, Down and Out on Murder Mile, comes out Oct. 28 from Harper Perennial.
Jackie Corley was born in 1982. She co-founded Word Riot, an online literary magazine and small press, in 2002. Her writing has appeared online and in various print anthologies. The Suburban Swindle, a short story collection, comes out Oct. 15 from New Publishing.
Review at JMWW
01325 days
Catherine Harrison reviewed The Suburban Swindle for the Fall 2008 issue of JMWW:
“There are some books written by and about 20-somethings that fill you with nostalgia (or anticipation), a longing for new adulthood, a time full of potential and beginnings and pure independence. But Jackie Corley’s The Suburban Swindle isn’t one of those books. This short story collection is full of what the narrator in ‘Blood in Jersey’ calls ‘oiled sadness,’ meant to be read as you smoke a carton of cigarettes and a guzzle a bottle of booze. …
“Corley’s writing is concise yet provocative. She crafts her characters and images with precision and delicacy. Her writing is insightful and ultimately empathetic. Beneath these damaged people are souls craving redemption and grace, and occasionally they find them, if only through distorted memories.”
GoodRead me
11372 days
If you’re on Goodreads, do me a favor and add The Suburban Swindle to one of your list.
I’ll think you’re just swell.
(And thanks to Steve Himmer for putting it on there in the first place. That was a really pleasant surprise.)
CommonLine Project
01415 days
Ananda Selah Osel interviewed me for the kick-ass poetry & interviews site, The CommonLine Project.
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