Joe Queenan
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Joseph "Joe" Queenan (born November 3, 1950) is an American journalist, critic, and essayist.
A self-professed "clown" and negative-styled humorist, Queenan is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has written for such publications as Spy Magazine, TV Guide, Movieline, The Guardian,[1] The American Spectator, The Weekly Standard,[2] and The New York Times Book Review. He is also a self-admitted "pathetic" columnist for The Wall Street Journal and a self-described "full-time son of a bitch."[3]
Biography
Queenan attended St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. He now lives in Tarrytown, New York. He is married and has two children.[citation needed]
Bibliography
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- Balsamic Dreams: A Short But Self-Important History of the Baby Boomer Generation, a critique of the Baby Boomers generation
- Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon: Joe Queenan's America, a tour of low-brow American pop culture
- Imperial Caddy: The Rise of Dan Quayle in America and the Decline and Fall of Practically Everything Else, a scathing view of Dan Quayle
- Closing Time, a memoir of Queenan's own abusive, alcoholic father and his bleak working-class upbringing in East Falls. Closing Time was included in The New York Times' list 100 Notable Books of 2009.[4]
- 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
- 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
References
- ↑ Joe Queenan profile, The Guardian website; accessed September 5, 2014.
- ↑ The Weekly Standard website; accessed September 5, 2014.
- ↑ http://www.salon.com/2001/07/13/queenan/
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External links
- Joe Queenan Article archive, The Guardian website; accessed September 5, 2014.
- Africa on the Silver Screen, Here on Earth - Radio Without Borders radio show, interviewed by Jean Feraca, April 5, 2007; accessed September 5, 2014.
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- Articles with unsourced statements from September 2014
- 1950 births
- Living people
- American critics
- American memoirists
- American male journalists
- American people of Irish descent
- American travel writers
- American male writers
- The Guardian journalists
- The American Spectator people
- Saint Joseph's University alumni
- Writers from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 21st-century American writers
- The New York Times writers
- 20th-century American writers
