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
borrowed boy detective mood music particular taking
In my fiction, there's a lot that's borrowed from music. It's never like I'm taking a lyric, but more the mood of a particular song. 'The Boy Detective Fails' was like listening to 'Eleanor Rigby' by The Beatles, this very melancholy-but-poppy song.
mistake fall boys
The boy detective thinks, The only thing all men have in common with one another is their inherent capacity to make mistakes. He reasons, But there is wonder in the attempt, knowing we are all destined to fall short, but forgoing reason and fear time and time again so deliberately.
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.
prayer quiet cry
When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer.
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.
stories work
What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.
certainly expected growing time
When I was growing up in the '70s and '80s, by the time you were 16, you were kind of expected to be an adult. By the time we were 16 and able to drive, certainly by 17 or 18 and into college, you just had very little interaction with your parents.