Joe Queenan – Closing Time
“America is an aspirational society” writes Joe Queenan in a recent column the “Guardian.” He should know as he grew up in the Schuylkill Falls housing project near East Falls in Philadelphia and is now a successful culture critic and author of several books. Queenan’s new book, “Closing Time” is about growing up in working-class Irish American Philadelphia in the 1950s and 1960s. Listen to the mp3
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