[REBROADCAST] JOE QUEENAN – Closing Time

    [REBROADCAST] “America is an aspirational society” wrote Joe Queenan in a 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 recent book, “Closing Time” is about growing up in working-class Irish American Philadelphia in the 1950s and 1960s.
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