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AuthorQueenan, Joe
Paid article"I Don't Do Frief" (June 2001)
"I Don't Do Gri* ef" While Baby Boomers rest-in-peace, their funerals have become Hell-on-Earth BY JOE QUEENAN hen I was a very young man, there was a popular witticism that made the rounds...
Paid articleLAST CALL: Once Frostbitten, Twice Shy (May 2001)
Once Frostbitten, Twice Shy LAST CALL BY JOE QUEENAN When the legendary explorer Ernest Shackleton led his 27-man crew on a disastrous trip to Antarctica in 1914, he had no way of knowing what a...
Paid articleLast Call (January 1999)
LAST CALL by Joe Queenan Pollock Jokes THREE WEEKS AGO, GAVIN STEINMENTZ, A CURATOR AT A prestigious New York art museum, noticed a middle-aged woman giggling uncontrollably as she gazed at a...
Paid articleLast Call: Close, But No Cigar (December 1998)
LAST CALL by Joe Queenan Close, But No Cigar IN ONE OF THE MOST HOTLY CONTESTED RIVALRIES IN RECENT history, Cameroon has narrowly edged out Paraguay as the most corrupt nation in the world....
Paid articleEminentoes: Geraldo Exposed (October 1998)
EMINENTOES by Joe Zueenan Geraldo Exposed D ear Tom: According to a recent report in TV Guide, CNBC's house stooge Gerald() Rivera now has his eyes on your job at NBC. Though widely dismissed by...
Paid articleLast Call: Not a Prayer (July 1998)
LAST CALL by Joe Queenan Not a Prayer G OD, SO LONG ABSENT FROM THE NATION'S sports pages, was back in the news on April 21, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, of all places. Seemingly, when the National...
Paid articleThe Week of Smoking Dangerously (March 1995)
......................................... Joe Queenan The Week of Smoking Dangerously Buddy, can you spare a match? 0 ne recent afternoon, I lit a Marlboro and slipped into a Times Square strip...
Paid articleIf You're Talking to Me, Your Career Must Be in Trouble (June 1994)
BOOK REVIEWS M r. Pulitzer, meet Mr. Joe Queenan, the hottest, zaniest, most wacked-out young humorist this side of Dave Barry and P. J. O'Rourke, a Mark Twain for the '90s. That's what we call a...
Paid articleAmong the Intellectualoids/Streetcar Express (August 1992)
Streetcar Express by Joe Queenan 4 4 ometimes," Blanche DuBois proclaims in an uncharacteristically chipper moment halfway through A Streetcar Named Desire, "there's God—so quickly." Yeah,...
Paid articleThe Nation's PulselReality Check (June 1992)
Reality Check by Joe Queenan When I was a nine-year-old boy growing up on the mean streets of North Philadelphia, I got a job in a clothing store that took me off the mean streets of Philadelphia....
Paid articleIf I Stop I'll Die, by John A. Williams and Dennis A. Williams (September 1991)
W hether its subject is Eastern European totalitarianism, Watergate, colitis, the rise and fall of Freddie Prinze, or Sudanese irrigation projects, no genuinely awful book can be deemed completely...
Paid articleAmong the Intellectualoids/Stage Left (May 1991)
AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS STAGE LEFT by Joe Queenan A s the curtain rose on Steve Tesich's new play The Speed of Darkness, I found myself gazing at an ordinary living room in an ordinary American...
Paid articleThe Best American Short Stories 1990 (January 1991)
rr he most voracious fiction aficio1 nada I know says that she never touches short stories because "just when I start to get interested in the characters it's time to say goodbye." She wouldn't have...
Paid articleSamurai Widow (August 1990)
rr his is not a book about John1 although he is an integral part of it—but a book about healing, my healing." So begins Samurai Widow, the story of Judith Jacklin Belushi's eight-year struggle to...
Paid articleLife on the Rim, by David Levine (June 1990)
M idway through the 1989-90 National Basketball Association season, I watched a televised broadcast of a game between the Philadelphia 76ers, a very good basketball team, and the New Jersey Nets, a...
Paid articleEminentoes/Senior Citizens (April 1990)
person who tells a hard luck story. N o system can eliminate begging altogether. There always are some people who will resort to it, and some willing to give their change. Indeed, most people would...
Paid articleAmong the Intellectualoids/Zoo Story (March 1990)
AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS ZOO STORY by Joe Queenan In a recent issue of the New Republic, Michael Kinsley took museums to task for their failure to deflate the current art bubble. Kinsley feels...
Paid articleEminentoes/Baby Doc (January 1990)
EMINENTOES BABY DOC by Joe Queenan 7 discovered Dr. Benjamin Spock too late in my childhood for him to be much use against my parents. Spock's books, setting forth cogent scientific reasons why...
Paid articleAmong the Intellectualoids/Homer and His Publishers (December 1989)
AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS HOMER AND HIS PUBLISHERS M ost people think that when Homer finished writing The Iliad, publishing houses were breaking down the door to get first crack at it. Nothing...
Paid articleEminentoes/Gold Diggers of '89 (October 1989)
EMINENTOES GOLD DIGGERS OF '89 by Joe Queenan W hen environmental activist Joao writers. "Joao's reappearance throws a authors. Montez biographies slated to going to be twiddling it or their...
Paid articleAmong the Intellectualoids/A Time to Stand (May 1989)
In the end, of course, Tower ran into problems not only because of his personal life. There was also the matter of his consulting with defense contractors on arms control matters right after...
Paid articleAmong the Intellectualoids/Braking Glass (April 1989)
AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS BRAKING GLASS by Joe Queenan It is widely known that before achieving international stardom, composer Philip Glass worked as a taxicab driver in New York City. Yet...
Paid articleAmong the Intellectualoids/Quark Bites (March 1989)
QUARK BITES It is generally agreed that Galileo was the last Catholic who really knew Science cold. It is no coincidence that he didn't go to parochial school. At the schools I attended—Our Lady...
Paid articleNice Day for a Black Wedding (February 1989)
Joe Queenan NICE DAY FOR A BLACK WEDDING Herewith, a few nuptial horror stories in which no one points blame at the bride's mother. ne of my best friends got married in a satanic wedding...
Paid articleThe New York Spectator/A Letter to the Editor (January 1989)
damage to the food chain resulting from the chemical technique. Regardless of the method, drunk or sober, worming remains a cold and clammy way to make a buck. And supplying wormers with probes is...
Paid articleCharacter Assassins (December 1988)
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 21, NO. 12 / DECEMBER 1988 Joe Queenan CHARACTER ASSASSINS Today's short-story writers think life in America is dull, and so they fill their work with weirdos—the...
Paid articleEminentoes/The Springsteen-Boesky Connection (November 1988)
EMINENTOES THE SPRINGSTEEN-BOESKY CONNECTION by Joe Queenan ne of the oddest bits of information to surface when risk arbitrageur John Mulheren was arrested last February by Rumson, New Jersey...
AuthorQuick, Johnathan
AuthorQuick, Jonathan
AuthorQuigley, Billy
AuthorQuinn, Patrick
AuthorQuinn, Richard
AuthorQuist, Terry
AuthorQuittner, Joshua
AuthorQwaint, Mary
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