Joe Meno





Joe Meno

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Joe Meno is a fiction writer and playwright that lives in Chicago. A winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award and the Society of Midland Author's Fiction Prize, he is the author of four novels, The Boy Detective Fails (Akashic 2006), Hairstyles of the Damned (Akashic 2004), Tender as Hellfire (St. Martin's 1999), and How the Hula Girl Sings (HarperCollins 2001). His short story collection is Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir (TriQuarterly 2005). His online serial, "The Secret Hand", ran through Playboy magazine at playboy.com. His short fiction has been published in the likes of McSweeney's, Witness, TriQuarterly, Mid-American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Washington Square, Other Voices, Gulf Coast, and broadcast on NPR. He is a fu...more


Average rating: 3.75 · 6,644 ratings · 978 reviews · 27 distinct works
Hairstyles of the Damned
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The Boy Detective Fails
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The Great Perhaps
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How the Hula Girl Sings
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 407 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions
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Demons in the Spring
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Tender As Hellfire
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 345 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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“What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths.”
Joe Meno, The Boy Detective Fails

“Beneath all of her thoughts and worries, beneath the complication of conflicting identities and needs, maybe it's as simple as loving the way some other person looks when they're sleeping.”
Joe Meno, The Great Perhaps

“The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.”
Joe Meno, The Boy Detective Fails

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