Book of Extraordinary Tragedies
From the best-selling author Joe Meno, a moving novel about the impossibility of fate and family
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Joe Meno
JOE MENO is a fiction writer and journalist who lives in Chicago. Winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a finalist for the Story Prize, Meno is the best-selling author of several novels and short story collections including Marvel and a Wonder, The Great Perhaps, The Boy Detective Fails, and Hairstyles of the Damned. He is a professor in the English and Creative Writing Department at Columbia College Chicago. Book of Extraordinary Tragedies is his latest work.
Author Events
- Sep 29, 2022: Akashic All-Stars event – Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event (Brooklyn, New York)
- Oct 2, 2022: Joe Meno – Brooklyn Book Festival
- Oct 2, 2022: Joe Meno, M. Chris Fabricant, Elizabeth Nunez, and Don Lee at the Brooklyn Book Festival—Brooklyn, New York.
- Oct 7, 2022: Joe Meno – City Lit Books (Chicago, IL)
- Oct 13, 2022: Joe Meno, Jerry Stahl – Skylight Books (Los Angeles, CA)
- Oct 19, 2022: Joe Meno – Boswell Book Company (Milwaukee, WI)
Titles
The Boy Detective Fails
Following the best seller Hairstyles of the Damned (more than 100,000 copies sold) with a spectacular coming-of-age-30 tale, Joe Meno proves once again why he’s the hottest indie author in America. Also check out Office Girl, Demons in the Spring, How the Hula Girl Sings, and Tender as Hellfire.
Chicago Noir: The Classics
Nelson Algren, Richard Wright, and Patricia Highsmith are just three of the iconic authors included in this outstanding volume.
Demons in the Spring
New paperback edition; twenty artists illustrate twenty stories from the best-selling author of Hairstyles of the Damned.
Hairstyles of the Damned
The debut novel from Akashic’s new imprint, Punk Planet Books. Also check out the smash hits How the Hula Girl Sings, Tender as Hellfire, and The Boy Detective Fails.
How the Hula Girl Sings
Paperback reissue of the second novel from the author of the smash hits Hairstyles of the Damned, Tender as Hellfire, and The Boy Detective Fails
Joe Meno Collection (Four Book Set)
For a limited time, purchase four of Joe Meno’s titles (Hairstyles of the Damned, Office Girl, How the Hula Girl Sings, and Tender as Hellfire) for only $25!
Marvel and a Wonder
Grandfather and grandson must journey into the underworld of the American Midwest in search of both courage and redemption.
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Office Girl
Best-selling novelist Joe Meno is back with a fantastic new novel about two young people and a visionary, doomed art movement.
Tender as Hellfire
Paperback reissue of the debut novel by the author of the best sellers The Boy Detective Fails, How the Hula Girl Sings and Hairstyles of the Damned (more than 70,000 copies sold).
Related Titles
Chicago Noir
This isn’t someone’s dream of Chicago. It’s not even a nightmare. It’s just the real city, unfiltered. Chicago Noir.
The Joe Meno Digit
Excerpts from all seven of Joe Meno’s titles: Marvel and a Wonder, Office Girl, Hairstyles of the Damned, The Boy Detective Fails, Demons in the Spring, Tender as Hellfire, and How the Hula Girl Sings.
The Spring Thrills Digit
Excerpts from By the Balls: The Complete Collection by Jim Pascoe and Tom Fassbender, Heart of the Old Country by Tim McLoughlin, Southland by Nina Revoyr, and The Plot Against Hip Hop by Nelson George.