Office Girl (28 page)
Devil's Whorehouse/The Misfits
Gimme Some Head/GG Allin
Dear Lover/Social D.
Lover's Rock/The Clash
Day After Day/The Violent Femmes
I got it suddenly. All of the songs were about fucking. I looked at the side of the tape, where the title was: I Got Pubic Lice. I kind of laughed out loud in class, then covered it quick with a cough. I looked at my watch and then at the clock once more. I started at my list again.
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Hairstyles of the Damned
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Joe Meno is a fiction writer and playwright who lives in Chicago. He is a winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Great Lakes Book Award, and was a finalist for the Story Prize. He is the author of five novels and two short story collections including
Hairstyles of the Damned, The Great Perhaps, The Boy Detective Fails, and Demons in the Spring
. His short fiction has been published in
One Story, McSweeney's, Swink, LIT, TriQuarterly, Other Voices, Gulf Coast,
and broadcast on NPR. His nonfiction has appeared in the
New York Times
and
Chicago Magazine.
He is an associate professor in the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia
College Chicago.
Also by Joe Meno
Demons in the Spring
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Demons in the Spring
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Also by Joe Meno
The Boy Detective Fails
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The Boy Detective Fails
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