Joe Queenan

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.

Bibliography

• 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

1. Joe Queenan profile, The Guardian website; accessed September 5, 2014.
2. The Weekly Standard website; accessed September 5, 2014.
3. http://www.salon.com/2001/07/13/queenan/
4. "100 Notable Books of 2009". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 March 2012.

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.