Joe Meno Talks Marvel and a Wonder to Publishers Weekly!
Best-selling author Joe Meno recently spoke to Publishers Weekly about his inspiration for his new novel Marvel and a Wonder, his writing process, and more! Click to read.
Best-selling author Joe Meno recently spoke to Publishers Weekly about his inspiration for his new novel Marvel and a Wonder, his writing process, and more! Click to read.
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The Chicago Reader named Joe Meno’s Office Girl the 2013 Best Novel by a Chicagoan Author & Best Book for the Disillusioned Artist in All of Us!
Office Girl by Joe Meno has been selected by The Believer‘s readers as a favorite fiction release of 2012!
The girl playing badminton is the one. But I don’t want to believe it. It is because her legs are so shapely and long and, in their stunning whiteness, betray a winter spent indoors. Her ankles are well-sculpted, her knees pinkly glowing, and there is something about her slender wrists that suggests the modest charms of aristocracy. I don’t care much about the rest of her. It is the shape of her shadow, the way she stands there bored in the shade of the cruise ship’s upper decks in a green skirt with white tennis socks pulled past her shins; I watch her lean over as she traces something with the edge of her racket, some invisible word or shape in the air. She is daydreaming and the picture she makes in the middle of the ocean liner is one of absolute splendor. I hear the sound of her laughter as the shuttlecock flies her way, her laugh which is not the kind of haughty one you’d expect from a girl who looks the way she does, and suddenly I’ve lost my nerve . . .
Publisher Johnny Temple interviews Joe Meno as part of Akashic Books’ “Literary Lions” interview series!
The vice principal asked if I wanted a ride home. It had just started to rain so I said okay. I was walking down Plum Street and was just about to disappear into the forest preserve when he pulled up. He was driving a station wagon that looked like it was twenty years old. There was a rusty patch on the passenger side door that looked like a dark red hand…