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Pre-order The Suburban Swindle

2008-05-29T18:27:08Z

(sorry if you've seen this a gabillion times. i'm cross-posting on every blog i remember having. apparently, i have a lot of blogs.)

A collection of short stories by Jackie Corley
Available for pre-order direct from the publisher, So New Media

Advance praise for The Suburban Swindle

"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

"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 of Welcome to Yesterday and Everyone's Burning

"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

Blurbs

2008-04-10T19:38:51Z

MY SHORT STORY COLLECTION IS COMING OUT SUMMER 2008 FROM SO NEW MEDIA

Here are the blurbs I've gotten so far:

"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

"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

crazyjackie @ 2007-11-07T18:06:00

2007-11-07T23:08:17Z

I'm going to be reading at the P.E.E.L. Reading Series tomorrow with Todd Colby, Samantha Topol, Filip Noterdaeme and Dawn Knopf:

Stain Bar
766 Grand Street
Brooklyn, NY
Thursday, November 8
7:30 p.m.

More info on the mega-hot P.E.E.L. Flyer (no, the map’s not real)

I'll be reading an excerpt from the new manuscript I'm working on.

DateSpaces.com

2007-11-06T01:38:18Z

Some friends from college have launched a new site venture:

http://www.datespaces.com/

...because three out of four former acappella singers can't be wrong.

(Thanks for the linky, Xtina)

And for the Haverfordians who want to know more: http://www.haverford.edu/news/stories/1611/51

crazyjackie @ 2007-08-09T17:40:00

2007-08-09T21:41:11Z

niceish rejection from one story. must keep trucking.

crazyjackie @ 2007-07-25T20:28:00

2007-07-26T00:30:09Z

jonathan ames and fiona apple? jonathan ames and fiona apple!

i'm so wishing i went to the ames boxing event now. it looked like a freakin' incredible time. anybody go?

tonight at KGB Bar

2007-07-22T14:16:07Z

KGB Bar Reading, July 22
Posted at July 17, 2007 by Jackie Corley

What: U.S. Launch Party for 'The Flash'
When: Sunday, July 22 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Where: KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street, New York, NY

Peter Wild's "The Flash" is an anthology of flash fiction by 100 writers. (More info here.)

Word Riot Press is sponsoring the East Coast launch party for "The Flash" at the KGB Bar. Readers at the event include Andrew Lewis Conn, Nathan Tyree, Paul Blaney, Jackie Corley and a surprise guest or two. (Nic Kelman is in L.A. pitching something and had to cancel his appearance.)

The book will be on sale at the reading for $12 and all proceeds go to Amnesty International.

This is the first WRP-sponsored event since 2003, so come and we'll make it a time.

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READER BIOS:

Andrew Lewis Conn is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, P (SoftSkull, 2003). Following a starred review in Kirkus, P was chosen as one of the summer’s best books by The Austin Chronicle, Nerve, The Oregonian, Salon, and Time Out New York, and was named one of the best books of the year by The Village Voice and The Austin Chronicle. P was translated into Greek by Electra Publishing and into Portuguese for publication in Brazil by Editora W11.

Conn’s other writing has appeared in The Village Voice, Film Comment, Time Out New York, and The Believer. He has been a resident at the Ledig House International Writers’ Colony and Yaddo.

A Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude graduate of Cornell University, Conn recently completed his second book, The Last American Novel and is at work on his third, O, Africa!

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Nathan Tyree is a writer from Kansas. His fiction and poetry has appeared in places like Edifice Wrecked; decomP; The Beat; Doorknobsand Body Paint; Flesh and Blood; Problem Child; The Shallow End; Lightning Journal; Journal of Modern Post and too many others to list. In addition to The Flash his work has been anthologized several times. Nathan is the author of Mr. Overby is Falling. He has never mastered the oboe.

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Paul Blaney is a fortysomething British writer now based in New Jersey. He’s had short stories published in numerous UK magazines and journals, but so far America remains immune to his charms. He is co-founder and organiser of Tales of the DeCongested (www.decongested.com) a London-based short story reading event, and of Apis Books (www.apisbooks.com).

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Jackie Corley was born in 1982. She developed Word Riot in March 2002 with the help of Paula Anderson. Word Riot Press,an independent publishing press, evolved out of the magazine in January 2003. Jackie’s writing has appeared on-line at MobyLives.com, 3AM Magazine and SerialText and in print in BOOM! For Real and Consumed: Women on Excess (So New Media).

'fine creature' ms word count

2007-07-02T03:48:24Z

And so it begins...

2,732 / 60,000
(4.6%)

knocking on heaven's door (aka Atlantic City)

2007-06-22T22:41:42Z

my birthday gift has finally arrived. i get to see a bob dylan concert at the borgota tomorrow. rock.

crazyjackie @ 2007-06-20T01:08:00

2007-06-20T05:08:19Z

Daniel Robert Epstein died last week

he did some absolutely incredible interviews for SuicideGirls.com.

note to self

2007-06-06T17:58:34Z

stop bitching about writing, lest you start to sound like one of these folks.

blurby

2007-06-04T05:30:06Z

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.

Soft Skull Press purchased

2007-05-17T05:45:36Z

Galleycat reports that Soft Skull has been bought by Winston, Shoemaker & Co., LLC.

Wow. I wonder what this will mean.

Does anyone have more info?

crazyjackie @ 2007-05-13T02:24:00

2007-05-13T06:25:26Z

i'm working on a very slight word riot redesign to have up for the may issue (may 15).

click to preview.

trammell-ter-view!

2007-05-10T02:07:19Z

the first part of my interview with aaron is up and it's funny.

crazyjackie @ 2007-05-07T01:37:00

2007-05-07T05:38:16Z

i posted about my genius friend, aaron trammll.

Order The Flash on Amazon.com

2007-05-05T04:26:31Z

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

crazyjackie @ 2007-05-04T05:58:00

2007-05-04T09:58:54Z

paula anderson's almost tattoo.

stuff and things

2007-05-03T10:07:32Z

i made my book title less depressing with a graphic.

it's magic. like jesus. but not sarah silverman.

flickr

2007-04-17T20:06:23Z

finally figured out how to add my latest flickr pics to the new site.

Poll time, brother sir

2007-04-12T18:50:15Z

Welcome to the wonderful world of literary fiction.

My agent is sending At the Slaughter out to editors this week. He said some of his authors like to know all the gritty details of editors' responses to their books, while others prefer to be left in the dark. He said I could figure out how much I want to know as the process goes along.

I'm inclined to want to know all the details, but why pass up a good poll opportunity?

View Poll: #965266

Sad Kermit

2007-03-29T03:36:20Z

Thanks to martybeckerman for thoroughly depressing me.

The Flash

2007-03-23T21:25:55Z

I am in this book with the following individuals:

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, 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

All proceeds from the book will go to Amnesty International.

On bonfires and rabbit holes

2007-03-19T19:45:38Z

(cross-posted on the newly designed site.)

In the past year my two favorite heaven-sent used bookstores got torn down.

The one in Ortley Beach was your typical Jersey seaside bookstore, with romance novels and mysterys jammed in every square inch of shelf space. But, intrepid explorer that I am, found the four feet long and four shelves high space in the world where I could pull out dusty, round-edge philosophy texts (which I never really read) and the novels and plays on my canon to-do list. I would truck back a block to the my grandmother’s Shore condo, heavy plastic bags of moldy, torn circa 1970 books cutting lines into my palms. The trips to the store and the piles of treasure I would return with irritated the hell out of my mom, who recognized that my bedroom was becoming a life-support system for my books. Fast forward to last month: the Ortley Beach used bookstore burnt to the ground. Massive suckage.

My other favorite used bookstore was this goth joint, the Book Pit, in Red Bank. It was tucked away on a sidestreet behind an eyeglass repair shop. The only way someone from out of town would know how to get there was by the sandwich board sign with giant bat on it on the sidewalk.

(The sandwich board disappeared later on after the town passed an ordinance banning all of them from sidewalks. What I got from the bookstore owner was that a town officials had to drive down White Street and pass the giant bat sign every day to get home, and apparently, sent him into all kinds of spurts of intestinal damage. There was also a crazy blind guy who, though he was aware that the sign was there, would run into it daily–cursing, limbs flailing, the whole deal–and knock it over. So in the ordinance came and out the bat sign went.)

The Book Pit was one of those twisty-turny used bookstores. If you didn’t know the place well, you could wonder into a side room walled with books and never find your way out. For the rest of us, there were landmarks to light your way by, like the random pentagram pictures, or the dolls heads pinned up near the cash registers, or the B-list horror flick actors’ autographs by the occult books, or the giant sculpture of screaming sinners trying to crawl out from between the gory ribs of Satan’s torso (this art piece hanged over one of the exits). My friends would scour the LPs packed in milk crates that cluttered the already crowded floor. I headed over to the fiction, o’ course. The Book Pit definitely had a more impressive selection than the Ortley Beach bookstore. I would sit for hours just crawling my eyes over the titles.

I hadn’t been to the Book Pit in a helluva long time and, a few weeks ago, decided a trip was necessary. I knew that a nearby building, owned by the same family that ran the eyeglass repair shop, was torn down a few months before. The family, the Dorns, were Red Bank royalty so it was a huge deal when they decided to sell the building. The newspaper I worked for even did a big spread on it. However, my thick brain didn’t compute that it was very likely that both of the Dorns’ buildings were torn down. I showed up on White Street, my lower lip slack, my chin sliding down to my sternum in shock. There was a chainlink fence around the construction site and all that was left of the Book Pit was a giant dusty hole in the ground. Bastards.

Updated sites

2007-03-18T16:41:09Z

The March 2007 issue of Word Riot is now up (5 YEARS!!!)

Crazyjackie.com now redirects to jackiecorley.wordriot.org because I wanted to get in (albeit very late) on this whole WordPress thing.