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Home » Joe Meno

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Posted inArts & Culture

25 local books to stock your shelves

by Reader staff July 21, 2020August 18, 2021

Add these new reads by and about Chicagoans to your list.

Posted inArts & Culture

Live lit is what Chicago is all about

by Salem Collo-Julin December 16, 2019August 18, 2021

The best reading events of 2019 have been going strong for years.

Posted inArts & Culture

What to check out at Printers Row 2017

by Aimee Levitt June 6, 2017August 18, 2021

Everything that’s free at the annual fest (except Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Al Franken)

Posted inArts & Culture

All the books we liked in 2015

by Aimee Levitt December 22, 2015August 18, 2021

And some theories about why we enjoyed them

Posted inMusic

Huge heart, 8 Inch Betsy: Remembering Meghan Galbraith

by Leor Galil November 11, 2015August 18, 2021

Ten months after her death, the community she left behind honors her positivity by welcoming her queercore band’s final album into the world.

Posted inBlogs

15 Chicago-set stories explore the darker side of humanity in Chicago Noir

by Jerome Ludwig September 10, 2015August 18, 2021

Local author Joe Meno’s Chicago Noir: The Classics compiles stories from the likes of Stuart Dybek, Patricia Highsmith, and Nelson Algren—some more hard boiled than others.

Posted inBlogs

Joe Meno finds Marvel and a Wonder in an old-school midwestern white man

by Janet Potter September 10, 2015August 18, 2021

It’s also the first novel about the crisis of American masculinity that this reviewer has actually enjoyed.

Posted inArts & Culture

Joe Meno’s new novel is a Marvel and a Wonder

by Janet Potter September 9, 2015August 18, 2021

Chicago novelist and playwright Joe Meno has published his most ambitious work to date. The Nelson Algren Literary Award and Pushcart Prize winner and author of books such as Hairstyles of the Damned and Office Girl now offers up Marvel and a Wonder, which he describes as “a contemporary epic set in the midwest.” The […]

Posted inArts & Culture

Lit and rock merge at Curbside Splendor’s Words + Music

by Megan Thielking October 14, 2014August 18, 2021

Indie imprint Curbside Splendor releases its first cassingle during Words + Music, October 16 at the Empty Bottle.

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Thu 3/27: The Jesus Lizard Book, Earth and Mark McGuire, and whisk(e)y

by Drew Hunt March 27, 2014August 18, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, March 27

Posted inBlogs

Poseidon is alive and destroying water parks in Wisconsin

by Aimee Levitt December 13, 2013August 19, 2021

Anders Nilsen’s new book brings Greek gods and Bible stories into the modern world.

Office Girl
Posted inBest of Chicago

Best New Novel by a Chicagoan

by Chicago Reader June 20, 2013August 19, 2021

Office Girl by Joe Meno

Posted inBest of Chicago

Best Book for the Disillusioned Artist in All of Us

by Shannon Nico Shreibak June 20, 2013August 19, 2021

The story revolves around two purposeless artists hell-bent on fumbling into some kind of purpose.

Sapphire, Joe Meno, T. Geronimo Johnson
Posted inArts & Culture

Writers bring “Vision and Voice” to the 17th annual Story Week

by Sam Worley March 14, 2013August 19, 2021

“Vision and Voice” is the theme of the 17th annual Story Week Festival of Writers.

Posted inArts & Culture

This week’s Culture Vultures recommend:

by Allegra Kirkland July 20, 2012August 19, 2021

Chicagoans recommend El Circo Cheapo, Joe Meno’s Office Girl, and documentary Resurrect Dead

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