Corey Mesler
...who had been Burke's manager since 1988, became the owner of the store with his lovely wife Cheryl (cf.). 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 loves people except those who carry guns and do bad things.
Cheryl Mesler
...is originally from the Mississippi Delta. She moved to Memphis in 1990 and shortly thereafter married the store manager. Family Life same as above. When not trying to get Chloe back to sleep she reads Jane Smiley, Alice Hoffman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, & others. She is the store's co-owner, and "everyone says that she's the brains behind Pa."
Robb DeNyse
...is the store manager, also serving as webmaster (web janitor is more like it) and handling the out-of-print book searches. 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 the 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 extraordinary potluck dinners and discussing literature intelligently. She enjoys reading poetry, mysteries, science fiction, Jane Austen, Henry James, and Shakespeare. Somewhere inside her is a frustrated actress trying to get out.
David Tankersley
David Tankersley was destined to be a hobo, a tattoo artist or a carnie, but real life intervened. He has worked as a publisher, journalist, advertising copywriter and adult reading teacher. Now, he works at Burke's.
Hannah King
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