Our Staff
Corey Mesler
...who had been Burke's manager since 1988, became the owner of the store with his lovely wife Cheryl (cf.) in 2000. Before coming to the book business in 1974 he had his own T.V. series called Secret Agent Man. He's been a pirate, a pauper, a puppet, a poet, a pawn and a king. He lives in Midtown with Cheryl and his son Toby, daughter Chloe, Border Collie Fly, and imaginary friend, Sigismund. His favorite authors include Philip Roth, John Updike, Iris Murdoch and William Steig. He is the author of numerous works of poetry and fiction.
...who had been Burke's manager since 1988, became the owner of the store with his lovely wife Cheryl (cf.) in 2000. Before coming to the book business in 1974 he had his own T.V. series called Secret Agent Man. He's been a pirate, a pauper, a puppet, a poet, a pawn and a king. He lives in Midtown with Cheryl and his son Toby, daughter Chloe, Border Collie Fly, and imaginary friend, Sigismund. His favorite authors include Philip Roth, John Updike, Iris Murdoch and William Steig. He is the author of numerous works of poetry and fiction.
Cheryl Mesler
...is originally from the Mississippi Delta. She moved to Memphis in 1990 to take a supposedly temporary job at Burke's Book Store, and shortly thereafter married the store manager (see above). Family Life same as above. When she isn't reading novels, she likes knitting scarves and watching reruns of Hee Haw and the Lawrence Welk Show.
Robb Denyse
...is the store manager. Born in Brooklyn, U.S.A., he moved to Memphis in early 1996 and had a torturous job at a local office supply store where he sold a chair to former Burke's owner Harriette Beeson, thus sealing his fate. He reads bunches of histories, many novels, several biographies, a few essay collections, and the occasional poem.
Susan Moskop
...earned her B.A. from Tulane University and her M.A. from University of Mississippi. She lives with her family of readers, husband R.J., an anesthesiologist, and daughter Sophie. She belongs to a book club whose members are equally adept at cooking extraordinay potluck dinners and discussing literature intelligently. She enjoys reading poetry, science fiction, mysteries, Jane Austen, Henry James, and Shakespeare. Somewhere inside her is a frustrated actress trying to get out.
David Tankersley
...is back at Burke's after a year's hiatus to work on the film (One Came Home) that he wrote with Willy Bearden.
Doug McQuirter
...is the new Hannah who was the new Doug (it's complicated).
Chloe Mesler
...age 14, is the daughter of owners Corey and Cheryl, and will someday step in to run Burke's, provided she can come up with the down payment. She loves fashion, anything from the 80's, her dog Fly, her rabbit Bowie, Charlie Chaplin, stuffed animals, and toast.