Joe Meno

Joe Meno

Joe Meno is a critically acclaimed novelist, playwright and music journalist. A winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award and a finalist for the 2008 Story Prize, he is the author of four previous novels and two story collections. Joe Meno is a professor of creative writing at Columbia College, Chicago, where he lives with his wife and daughter. 

Lee Dibble
 

Listen to Joe Meno reading from The Great Perhaps.

Joe Meno
 

Joe Meno
 

M is for mischief, which many great books contain. Rainer Maria Wilke once said "No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger."

Jon Butler
 

Earlier this summer, my oldest friend asked me if I could suggest a reading for his wedding ceremony. The criteria: 'Nothing religious, nothing too flowery and over the top, no Eskimo blessings.'