Biography
Queenan Country documents his lifelong fascination with Great Britain. In it, he describes the special relationship Americans have with the British.
His most recent effort, Closing Time, is an account of his abusive Irish-American alcoholic father and his bleak working-class upbringing in the East Falls section of Philadelphia, Pa., especially in the Schuylkill Falls housing project. The book has been compared to Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, which was about an abusive alcoholic Irish father and the devastating effect that he had on his family. Ironically, Queenan wrote one of the few negative reviews of the McCourt book, taking the author to task for being overly sentimental and too quick to forgive his father for his actions, which caused the deaths of three of his children.
Queenan is married, with two children, and lives in Tarrytown, New York.
His books do not include the publisher information but are titled:
Balsamic Dreams: A Short But Self-Important History of the Baby Boomer Generation
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
Imperial Caddy: The Rise of Dan Quayle in America and the Decline and Fall of Practically Everything Else
Red Lobster, White Trash, & the Blue Lagoon: Joe Queenan's America
Closing Time: A Memoir
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
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