Joe Meno
Joe Meno
Joe Menois a novelist, writer of short fiction, playwright, and music journalist based in Chicago...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
afterlife tragedy triumph
It is what we see when we imagine what the afterlife must be like: our happiest triumphs, our most sincere moments, stolen from the seam of our lives, a respite just before the onset of imminent tragedy.
voice littles ears
Where do you go when you die? Ha ha. Go on, go on and tell her, Billy." Billy smiles. "You become a little voice in someone's ear telling them that things will be alright.
sex character writing
I always feel super uncomfortable when it's like ah, there probably has to be a sex scene. I feel really bad and then always look around to see if anyone is watching me while I'm writing. I want to apologize to people who have to read those sex scenes, but I feel like it's part of the characters life, it's important.
moving heart dark
It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing who might want to destroy you, who might like to fill your heart with poison, who might rob you and stab you, who might stand above you in the dark with a tarantula.
evil wonder acts-of-evil
An act of evil is the death of wonder
reading character opportunity
In novels you're able to occupy character's internal thoughts and it's really hard to do in a film or a TV show. When you're reading a character's thoughts or when it's in first person, you're reading kind of their own story, so you have the opportunity to see what makes that character complex or complicated. And to me that's what the whole point of fiction is.
prayer quiet cry
When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer.
imagination important answers
Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.
evil world
The world of evil is only as evil as we allow it to be.
our-world way wells
Our worlds are so momentary. We are along all our lives and then go off that way as well.
trying radio appeals
And it's exactly what's wrong with the radio. It's like...anything that tries to appeal to everybody always ends up sounding so cheap.
sleep simple worry
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.
brave humans human-beings
The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.
complex fiction opportunity point
When you're reading, like, a character's thoughts, or when it's in first person, you're reading kind of their own story, so you have the opportunity to see what makes that character complex or complicated. And to me, that's what the whole point of fiction is.