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This week: Novelist Joe Meno!

Joe Meno is a fiction writer and playwright who lives in Chicago. A winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Great Lakes Book Award, and a finalist for the Story Prize, he is the author of five novels, The Great Perhaps, The Boy Detective Fails, Hairstyles of the Damned, How the Hula Girl Sings, and Tender as Hellfire. His short story collections are Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir and Demons in the Spring. His short fiction has been published in the likes of McSweeney’s, One Story, Swink, LIT, TriQuarterly, Other Voices, Gulf Coast, and broadcast on NPR. He was a contributing editor to Punk Planet, the seminal underground arts and politics magazine. His non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times and Chicago Magazine.

Thank you, Chicago magazine, for picking Bad at Sports’ upcoming event at the MCA Chicago for its weekly Guide section this week.  Duncan MacKenzie will be hosting a Cabinet of Curiosity show at the Museum on the evening of April 20th. (We’ll have more details on the event soon, but we can promise that it will be magical).