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Joe Meno is a fiction writer and playwright who lives in Chicago. A winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Great Lakes Book Award, and a finalist for the Story Prize, he is the author of five novels, The Great Perhaps, The Boy Detective Fails, Hairstyles of the Damned, How the Hula Girl Sings, and Tender as Hellfire. His short story collections are Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir and Demons in the Spring. His short fiction has been published in the likes of McSweeney's, One Story, Swink, LIT, TriQuarterly, Other Voices, Gulf Coast, and broadcast on NPR. He was a contributing editor to Punk Planet, the seminal underground arts and politics magazine. His non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times and Chicago Magazine.

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Location: Street: 315 W. Gorham St. City: Madison, Province: Wisconsin Postal Code: 53703-2218 Country: United States (tilføjet fra IndieBound)… (mere)

Joe Meno and John Lutz, an Akashic Books Double-header ****JUST ADDED*** John Lutz will read from the not-yet-released-but-available-early-just-for-tonight Kansas City Noir Joe Meno's fantastic brand-spanking new book is Office Girl, published by the equally as fantastic and beloved-by-Subterranean Akashic Books. You can meet him, listen to him read and discuss, and get a copy signed just for you. Kansas City Noir is the newest installment in the amazing critically-acclaimed Noir series from Akashic. It includes brand-new stories by Daniel Woodrell, Matthew Eck, Catherine Browder, Nancy Pickard, John Lutz, J. Malcolm Garcia, Kevin Prufer, Linda Rodriguez, Nadia Pflaum, Phong Nguyen, Andres Rodriguez, and others. Copies of Joe's books and copies of Kansas City Noir will be available for purchase and signing at the event. NO ONE DIES IN Office Girl. Nobody talks about the international political situation. There is no mention of any economic collapse. Nothing takes place during a World War. INSTEAD, THIS NOVEL IS ABOUT YOUNG PEOPLE doing interesting things in the final moments of the last century. Odile is a lovely twenty-three-year-old art-school dropout, a minor vandal, and a hopeless dreamer. Jack is a twenty-five-year-old shirker who's most happy capturing the endless noises of the city on his out-of-date tape recorder. Together they decide to start their own art movement in defiance of a contemporary culture made dull by both the tedious and the obvious. Set in February 1999--just before the end of one world and the beginning of another--Office Girl is the story of two people caught between the uncertainty of their futures and the all-too-brief moments of modern life. Joe Meno'S LATEST NOVEL ALSO FEATURES black-and-white illustrations by renowned artist Cody Hudson and photographs by visionary photographer Todd Baxter. KANSAS CITY: WHERE EAST AND WEST COLLIDE, where naked ambition meets broken dreams, where blues and the night go together like rye whiskey, vermouth, and bitters. Yes, Kansas City is a surprising place of grit, gore, and betrayal, at least in the imaginations of our diverse lineup of contributors. Kansas City Noir, another in Akashic Books' series of geographically specific anthologies, peels back the aura of civility and captures the raw truths of the human condition as lived in this heartland, third-coast city.

Joe Meno is a fiction writer and playwright who lives in Chicago. A winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Great Lakes Book Award, and a finalist for the Story Prize, he is the author of five novels, The great perhaps, The Boy Detective Fails, Hairstyles of the damned, How the Hula Girl Sings, and Tender as Hellfire. His short story collections are Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir and Demons in the spring. His short fiction has been published in the likes of McSweeney’s, One Story, Swink, LIT, TriQuarterly, Other Voices, Gulf Coast, and broadcast on NPR. He was a contributing editor to Punk Planet, the seminal underground arts and politics magazine. His non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times and Chicago Magazine.

John Lutz is the author of more than forty novels and over 200 short stories and articles. His novels and short fiction have been translated into almost every language and adapted for almost every medium. Among his awards are the MWA Edgar, the PWA Shamus, The Trophee 813 Award for best mystery short story collection translated into the French language, the PWA Life Achievement Award, and the Short Mystery Fiction Society's Golden Derringer Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the author of two private eye series, the Nudger series, set in St. Louis, Missouri, and the Carver series, set in Florida, as well as many non-series novels.

Location: Street: Subterranean Books Additional: 6275 Delmar Blvd City: Saint Louis, Province: Missouri Postal Code: 63130-4716 Country: United States (tilføjet fra IndieBound)… (mere)

We're looking forward to this fun event! Authors Joe Meno and Nathan Larson will read from their new paperback novels. They'll be joined by Portland indie-pop singer-songwriter Kim Baxter.

Joe Meno's Office Girl is about young people doing interesting things in the final moments of the last century. Odile is a lovely twenty-three-year-old art-school dropout, a minor vandal, and a hopeless dreamer. Jack is a twenty-five-year-old shirker who's most happy capturing the endless noises of the city on his out-of-date tape recorder. Together they decide to start their own art movement in defiance of a contemporary culture made dull by both the tedious and the obvious. Set in February 1999—just before the end of one world and the beginning of another—Office Girl is the story of two people caught between the uncertainty of their futures and the all-too-brief moments of modern life.

Nathan Larson, who's an award-winning film composer and the former guitarist for '90s band Shudder to Think, found acclaim for his 2011 debut novel, The Dewey Decimal System. The Nervous System is that novel's follow-up, in which an ad-hod librarian and bodyguard nicknamed "Dewey Decimal" stumbles upon information concerning the gruesome murder of a prostitute and a prominent US senator's involvement. Immediately he finds himself chasing ghosts and fighting for his life, pursued by Blackwater-style private military contractors and the ever-present specter of his own past. Decimal confronts a twilight world of Korean hostess bars, childhood bogeymen, and the face of the military-industrial complex gone haywire—all framed by a city descending toward total chaos.

Kim Baxter is a member of buzzy, catchy Northwest indie rock band All-Girl Summer Fun Band. She's just released her winsome solo album, The Tale of Me and You, which you can listen to at her Bandcamp page. She'll be performing acoustic renditions of her songs during the evening.

Location: Street: 7834 SW Capitol Hwy City: Portland, Province: Oregon Postal Code: 97219-2466 Country: United States (tilføjet fra IndieBound)… (mere)

Chicago native and Book Cellar regular Joe Meno joins us for the release party of his forthcoming novel Office Girl. Set in February 1999, it tells the story of Odile and Jack, two twentysomethings who, disillusioned by their banal cultural surroundings, create an art movement in an effort to reclaim meaning in a world hampered by predictability. In doing so, they come face-to-face with their own misplaced ambitions as well as life's looming uncertainties.

Featuring readings by Stephanie Plenner, Lindsay Hunter, and Adam Levin. Music by Nick Butcher and Jordan Martins!

Location: Street: 4736-38 N Lincoln Ave City: Chicago, Province: Illinois Postal Code: 60625 Country: United States (tilføjet fra IndieBound)… (mere)

JOE MENO, hosts an evening of readings by authors J. Adams Oaks, Bayo Ojikutu, Stephanie Kuehnert and Billy Lombardo.

(LOCATION: Cindy Pritzker Auditorium) Nelson Algren Award-winner Joe Meno will host an evening of readings by authors J. Adams Oaks, Bayo Ojikutu, Stephanie Kuehnert and Billy Lombardo. The evening will also include photos by Art Shay, renowned photographer and friend of Nelson Algren, a film clip from the upcoming documentary Algren by Michael Caplan, and a conversation between these two artists. (bookjones)… (mere)

CHRIS CONNELLY læser fra Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible and Fried: My Life As A Revolting Cock.; STEPHANIE KUEHNERT læser fra I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone.; JOE MENO læser fra Demons in the Spring.; JOLENE SIANA læser fra Go Ask Ogre: Letters from a Deathrock Cutter.

Join us for a rock-solid night of great writers! Joe Meno reads his latest collection of stories, Demons in the Spring. Chris Connelly reads from his memoir as a singer for the Revolting Cocks, Concrete Bulletproof Invisible and Fried: My Life as a Revolting Cock. Stephanie Kuehnert reads her new novel about growing up punk, I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone. Jolene Siana reads from her published teenage letters to Ogre, the singer from Skinny Puppy, Go Ask Ogre: Letters from a Deathrock Cutter. (bookjones)… (mere)

Nina Revoyr læser fra The Age of Dreaming.; Elizabeth Crane læser fra You Must Be This Happy to Enter: Stories.; Joe Meno læser fra Tender as Hellfire.

Spend Cinco De Mayo with us and a fabulous trio of authors. Nina Revoyr, Elizabeth Crane, and Joe Meno will read and discuss their titles The Age of Dreaming, You Must Be This Happy To Enter and Tender As Hellfire. (bookjones)… (mere)