Career
Mesler"s work has published in numerous journals and anthologies including The Esquire Narrative4 Project (2013) and Good Poems, American Places (Viking Press 2011). He has published seven novels, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue (2002), We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon(2006), The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores(2010), Following Richard Brautigan (2010), Gardner Remembers (2011), Frank Comma and the Time-Slip (2012), and Diddy-Wah-Diddy: A Beale Street Suite (2013). 4 full length poetry collections: Some Identity Problems (2008), Before the Great Troubling (2011), Our Locust Years (2013), and "The Catastrophe of my Personality" (2014).
And 3 books of short stories, Listen: 29 Short Conversations (2009), Notes toward the Story and Other Stories (2011) and I"ll Give You Something to Cry About (2011).
He has also published a dozen chapbooks of both poetry and prose. lieutenant is one of the oldest independent bookstores in the United States.
