Joe Queenan
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Joe Queenan (born November 3, 1950) is a self professed negative styled humorist, critic and author from Philadelphia who graduated from Saint Joseph's University. He has written for various publications, such as Spy Magazine, TV Guide, Movieline, The Guardian and the New York Times Book Review, and is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal. He has written some books, including Balsamic Dreams, a critique of the Baby Boomers, Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon, a tour of low-brow American pop culture and Imperial Caddy, a fairly scathing view of Dan Quayle and the American Vice-Presidency. None of his writing efforts have reached any commercial best seller list of note. He has not achieved any formal recognition for his writing nor has he been singled out by his peers for special consideration. As a journeyman writer he has been employed.
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Queenan Country documents his lifelong fascination with Great Britain. In it, he describes the special relationship Americans have with the British.
His most recent effort, Closing Time, is an account of his abusive Irish-American alcoholic father and his bleak working-class upbringing in the East Falls section of Philadelphia, Pa., especially in the Schuylkill Falls housing project. The book has been somewhat compared to Angela's Ashes (written by Frank McCourt), which was about an abusive alcoholic Irish father and the devastating effect that he had on his family. Ironically, Queenan, of course, wrote one of the few negative reviews of the McCourt book, taking the author to task for being overly sentimental and too quick to forgive his father for his actions which directly caused the deaths of three of his children.
Queenan is married, with two children, and lives in Tarrytown, New York.
His books do not include the publisher information but are titled:
Balsamic Dreams: A Short But Self-Important History of the Baby Boomer Generation
If You’re Talking to me Your Career Must be in Trouble: Movies, Mayhem, and Malice
The Unkindest Cut: How a Hatchet-Man Critic Made His Own $7,000 Movie and Put It All on His Credit Card
Imperial Caddy: The Rise of Dan Quayle in America and the Decline and Fall of Practically Everything Else
Red Lobster, White Trash, & the Blue Lagoon: Joe Queenan's America
Closing Time: A Memoir
My Goodness: A Cynic's Short-Lived Search for Sainthood
Malcontents: The Best Bitter, Cynical, and Satirical Writing in the World
Queenan Country: A Reluctant Anglophile's Pilgrimage to the Mother Country
True Believers: The Tragic Inner Life of Sports Fans
Confessions of a Cineplex Heckler: Celluloid Tirades and Escapades
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[edit] External links
- Joe Queenan Article archive, at The Guardian
- Africa on the Silver Screen, Here on Earth - Radio Without Borders radio show, interviewed by Jean Feraca, April 5, 2007
