For fourteen years, critic Joe Queenan walked past the Winter Garden Theater in New York City without once even dreaming of venturing inside to see Cats. One fateful afternoon in March 1996, however, having grown weary of his hopelessly elitist lifestyle, he decided to buy a half-price ticket and ch[...]
The American author of True Believers recounts how he cast aside a stressful Fourth of July family get-together for a trip to Great Britain, during which he confronted offbeat politics and a host of eccentric characters in the nation's pubs, countryside, and cultural locales. Reprint.[...]
One of America's leading humorists and author of the bestseller "Closing Time" examines his own obsession with books
Joe Queenan became a voracious reader as a means of escape from a joyless childhood in a Philadelphia housing project. In the years since then he has dedicated himself to an assor[...]