Corey Mesler: 4 books

With poems like “Strictly Blowjob” and “The Cancer of Believing You’re in Control,” acclaimed writer Corey Mesler has made a book that adjoins sex, love and social connection in their many manifestations, from meditations on The Beatles, death, pharmacology, and infidelity, to “the holycow...

TO BE held in cupped hands and passed around with wonder, the storied worlds of I’ll Give You Something to Cry About constitute a grouping born of spellbinding cosmic dust. Once more assuming the mantle of Story’s guardian, Corey Mesler sets to work at not only protecting and preserving, but pondering,...

Cockahoop, Xianggang, February 4thWe were greeted by the denizens with a parade and small gifts. I received a microscopic elephant carved neatly from an actual tusk. My guide, Actaeon, was given a timepiece showing earthly hours alongside those of heaven. Spent a peaceful day eating the local...

After a string of box office bombs, a director heads back to his Southern hometown, in this novel from an “original, clever, funny writer” (Ann Beattie). Eric Warberg went to Hollywood to make it big. For many years, he was successful—until suddenly he was virtually unemployable. So when...