Joe Queenan

'Closing Time' by Joe Queenan

Los Angeles Times, CA
By Dinah Lenney In "Closing Time," Joe Queenan's new memoir, the author was none too pleased with his high school girlfriend when she told him that "she had big plans for her life, and that none of them included me." She was on her way to study music ...

Words and music

Philadelphia Inquirer, PA
One of them will be Philadelphia-born satirist and journalist Joe Queenan, who has written a new memoir of growing up working-class Irish in the city, Closing Time. Though Queenan hasn't lived in Philadelphia since soon after attending St. Joseph's ...

Climbing to the Top at the Bubble-Gum Factory

New York Times, United States
By JOE QUEENAN At the end of my freshman year at St. Joseph's College, Richard Nixon, never one to lie down on the job when an opportunity to torment my family presented itself, closed down the federal program that had been bankrolling my education. ...

The Clog Weekend Omnibus: Where do all the weekenders meet? South ...

Growing up in '50s Phila.

Philadelphia Inquirer, PA
By Joe Queenan Joe Queenan's 10th book is an ambitious memoir, and the best way I can praise it is to say that, at least in feeling if not in setting, it reminds me of Angela's Ashes: The Next Generation. Most all of the ingredients of Frank McCourt's ...

Back to the future

Spectator.co.uk, UK
Joe Queenan's fine piece about revisiting classic French movies is all the excuse I need to re-run Nouvelle Vague's clever take on a famous scene from "Bande à part". Queenan finds that Godard's work has dated much less well than Truffaut's. ...

Don't Disrespect Well-Paid Workers

Wall Street Journal
"War By Any Other Name" (op-ed, April 13), Joe Queenan's satirical look at foreign policy euphemisms under the Obama administration, brings to mind another term often used by politicians in comments about domestic events -- "working families. ...

Pope Benedict and the Pursuit of Truth

On Faith, DC
Humorist Joe Queenan objects to false courage or "the act of being gutsy enough to accept responsibility for doing what one has unarguably done. ... The whole point of false courage is to move the conversation away from one's failings to one's ...

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The Weekly Standard
by Philip Terzian Joe Queenan is an essayist whose jaundiced eye, sharp tongue, and sharper humor have dissected the great American insect, to great effect, in these pages. But in Closing Time: A Memoir (Viking, 352 pp., $26.95) the microscope is ...
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