Joe Meno

Hairstyles of the Damned is the third novel by Chicago author Joe Meno. Released by Punk Planet Books in 2004, it has sold over 80,000 copies in ten printings. It has been optioned for film by Focus Features.

The Boy Detective Fails is the fourth novel by Chicago author Joe Meno, released by Punk Planet Books in 2006.

A breakout new novel from the critically acclaimed novelist and playwright Joe Meno, author of Hairstyles of the Damned. The sky is falling for the Caspers, a family of cowards: for Jonathan, a paleontologist, searching in vain for a prehistoric giant squid; for his wife, Madeline, an animal behaviorist with a failing …

How the Hula Girl Sings is the second novel by Chicago author Joe Meno. Released by Punk Planet books in 2001.

Bluebirds Used to Croon the Choir: Stories is a jazzy collection of short stories and little moments from genre-hopping Chicago author Joe Meno. Released by Planet Punk books in 2005.

Demons in the Spring is a collection of twenty short stories by Chicago author Joe Meno. Released by Punk Planet books in 2008, with illustrations by twenty artists including Charles Burns, Archer Prewitt, Ivan Brunetti, Jay Ryan, Paul Hornschemeier, Anders Nilsen, Geoff McFedtridge, Kelsey Brookes, Kim Hiorthoy, …

Tender as Hellfire is a debut novel by Chicago author Joe Meno. Released by Punk Planet books in 1999. Meno limns a near-fantastical world of trailer park floozies, broken-down '76 Impalas, lost glass eyes, and the daily experiences of two boys trying to make sense of their random, sharp lives.

Amazon Best Books of the Month, July 2012: Light but not fluffy, spare but not small, this novel from the Chicago-based playwright and novelist is a love letter to youth, art, and, well, love. It is 1999, and 23-year-old Odile (think the actress from Amélie or The Entertainer, except she’s American; ever self-aware, …

Winner of the Society of Midland Authors Award for the Region's Best Books of 2015 (Adult Fiction) Named a Booklist Editors' Choice for 2015 Longlisted for the American Library Association's 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction "Compelling and necessary....[Meno] has a knack for giving small happenings …