The Last Boomer

September 10, 2001 · Jeremy Lott, Magazine, Books and Arts

THE NOVELIST JAMES ELLROY once described Joe Queenan as "half-Calvinist, half-nihilist." But, for most of the 1990s, the nihilist seemed predominant. From The Unkindest Cut to Confessions of a Cineplex Heckler, Queenan continued to double back on his own well-trodden steps, making a living by…

Smoking Gun

March 26, 2001 · Jeremy Lott, Magazine, Books and Arts

A Question of Intent