joe meno’s website author and playwright the great perhaps the boy detective fails hairstyles of the damned how the hula girl sings tender as hellfire bluebirds used to croon in the choir demons in the springTumblr (3.0; @joemeno)http://www.joemeno.com/<p>a new novel by joe meno</p> <p>forthcoming july, 2012</p> <p><strong>a <em><a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-61775-075-5" title="p w" target="_blank">publishers weekly</a></em> pick of the week</strong>:</p> <p>In Joe Meno’s new novel, set in the last year of the 20th century, art school dropout Odile Neff and amateur sound artist Jack Blevins work deadening office jobs; gush about indie rock, French film, and obscure comic book artists; and gradually start a relationship that doubles as an art movement. They are, in other words, the 20-something doyens of pop culture and their tale of promiscuous roommates, on-again/off-again exes, and awkward sex is punctuated on the page by cute little doodles, black and white photographs (of, say, a topless woman in a Stormtrooper mask), and monologues that could easily pass for Belle &amp; Sebastian lyrics (“It doesn’t pay to be a dreamer because all they really want you to do is answer the phone”).  </p> <p><strong><em>booklist</em><em> (starred review):</em></strong></p> <p>Meno has constructed a snow-flake delicate inquiry into alienation and longing. Illustrated with drawings and photographs and shaped by tender empathy, buoyant imagination, and bittersweet wit, this wistful, provocative, off-kilter love story affirms the bonds forged by art and story.</p> <p><strong><em>kirkus reviews:</em></strong></p> <p>The talented Chicago-based Meno has composed a gorgeous little indie romance, circa 1999&#8230;A sweetheart of a novel, complete with a hazy ending.</p> <p><em><strong>michigan avenue magazine:</strong></em></p> <p>While <em>Office Girl </em>features illustrations by artist Cody Hudson and photographs by Todd Baxter, its real substance lies in the story itself. Set in Chicago right before the new millennium, Meno, a Chicagoan, explores the start of an art movement through the eyes of two twenty-something dreamers in this novel.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><em><a href="http://anobiumlit.com/2012/05/19/review-office-girl-by-joe-meno/" title="an review" target="_blank">anobium magazine:</a></em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><em>Office Girl</em> is packed with whimsy and soft terror. It’s emotionally affective and its scenes are sometimes too familiar, as if you have once been here yourself, in this same office, in that same bedroom, on that same street. It’s the tale of a weeklong romance that cuts to the heart. At times, you remember it like it was your own. Both Jack and Odile suffer from their own inability to translate their thoughts into words, and they possess a certain innocent, curious sexuality. There’s nothing graphic here, but the feelings are laid bare. And, as if in a dream, you can watch these feelings winding themselves through Jack and Odile’s increasingly complex layers of consciousness.</span><strong><em><br/></em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><em><br/></em></strong></p>http://www.joemeno.com/post/21379291414http://www.joemeno.com/post/21379291414Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:32:00 -0500joe menooffice girlnovelfiction<p><em>anobium magazine</em> and <em>the handshake magazine </em>present:</p> <p><strong>office girl book release party</strong></p> <p>thursday, june 28th, 7pm, 2012</p> <p><a href="http://www.bookcellarinc.com/" title="book cellar" target="_self">the book cellar</a></p> <p>4736&#160;N. Lincoln, Chicago, IL</p> <p>featuring: adam levin, author of <em>The Instructions</em> and <em>Hot Pink</em></p> <p>lindsay hunter, author of<em> Daddy&#8217;s</em></p> <p>stephanie plenner</p> <p>music by nick butcher and jordan martins</p>http://www.joemeno.com/post/19805519561http://www.joemeno.com/post/19805519561Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:55:00 -0500joe menooffice girl<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltc9tvjHUL1qgc0kxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>paperback cover of joe meno’s newest novel</p> <p><em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Office-Girl-Joe-Meno/dp/161775076X/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1328453955&sr=1-1" title="o g" target="_blank">office girl</a></em></p> <p>forthcoming july 2012</p>http://www.joemeno.com/post/11674769231http://www.joemeno.com/post/11674769231Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:39:00 -0500joe menooffice girl<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltc9q29oIb1qgc0kxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>hardcover of joe meno’s new novel</p> <p><a title="office girl" href="http://www.amazon.com/Office-Girl-Joe-Meno/dp/161775076X/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1319070170&sr=8-1" target="_blank"><em>office girl</em></a></p> <p>forthcoming july 2012</p>http://www.joemeno.com/post/11674663866http://www.joemeno.com/post/11674663866Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:37:00 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrhvbn400N1qb77mro1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://whatroodo.tumblr.com/post/10192513066" target="_blank">whatroodo</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Dreaming of being eaten by a Lion.</p> <p>“Lion’s Jaws” by Joe Meno</p> </blockquote>http://www.joemeno.com/post/10202049608http://www.joemeno.com/post/10202049608Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:25:23 -0500mcsweeney's 37joe menolion's jaws<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkocafBSM31qgc0kxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>high five recommendations from joe meno</p> <p>in the new issue of <a title="high fives" target="_blank" href="http://www.jettisonquarterly.com/currentIssue/index.php#joe-meno">jettison quarterly</a></p> <p>photo by david robert elliott</p>http://www.joemeno.com/post/5189443170http://www.joemeno.com/post/5189443170Wed, 04 May 2011 09:01:00 -0500joe meno<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfns28ZKDq1qgc0kxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>photograph by todd baxter of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.baxterphoto.com/">baxter photo</a></p>http://www.joemeno.com/post/2950270238http://www.joemeno.com/post/2950270238Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:56:00 -0600<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TW0VKeYLIY">don't. stop. now.</a>: <p>video</p> <p>the last song of the last concert of the band guided by voices</p>http://www.joemeno.com/post/2950108046http://www.joemeno.com/post/2950108046Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:47:00 -0600<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfnrm6h7rY1qgc0kxo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>artwork by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.redsilas.com/index.php">c. s. neal</a></p>http://www.joemeno.com/post/2950092402http://www.joemeno.com/post/2950092402Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:46:00 -0600