He wrote, directed and starred in the financially ruinous 1994 low-budget film Twelve Steps to Death. He also made three short films for Britain's Channel 4: Mickey Rourke for a Day, My Fair Hugh, and So You Wanna Be a Gangster. His 2009 memoir Closing Time was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. A frequent contributor to BBC Radio, his work there included Look Back in Armour, A Brief History of Irony, and Hitler's Favourite Cowboy. Life on his return to the states veered in a different direction, one that had him author ten books, including If You're Talking to Me, Your Career Must Be in Trouble and Red Lobster, White Trash and the Blue Lagoon. Supporting himself in Paris through a series of odd jobs, Joe managed night after night to be in the Comedie Francaise cheap seats, the section that the French whimsically call "le paradis" but Yanks refer to as the nosebleed section. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia in 1972, he earned a fellowship to study in France. However, few people know that playwrighting and the theater were Joe’s first love. And there are many other labels thrown at Joe over the years some of them especially from the targets of his wit are too offensive to repeat on LinkedIn. The Wall Street Journal tags him as their Moving Targets columnist.
The Guardian calls Joe Queenan “a cultural critic and movie reviewer”. The BBC describes him as an “American satirist”. enlightening account of the ways in which we are all, to some extent, casualties of our own childhoods.Yes, for three plays now including our upcoming Zoom production, Grudges - tix available here, Joe Queenan has been my insightful, sometimes sarcastic, always urging me to cut more lines, ever-faithful writing partner. ' Closing Time is unmistakably a tale of triumph, vindication and revenge. With the help of a series of mentors and surrogate fathers, and armed with his own furious love of books and music, Joe begins the long flight away from the dismal confines of his neighbourhood - with a brief misbegotten stop at a seminary - and into the wider world.Ĭlosing Time is an unforgettable account of the damage done to children by parents without futures and of the grace children find to move beyond these experiences.
By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Closing Time recounts Joe Queenan's Irish Catholic upbringing in a family dominated by his erratic father, a violent yet oddly charming emotional terrorist whose alcoholism fuels a limitless torrent of self-pity, railing, destruction, and late-night chats with the Lord Himself.
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