Scott Simon, Weekend Edition Host
Joe Queenan is on our show this week with his remarkable memoir, Closing Time, about growing up in a Philadelphia housing project with an abusive father and an indifferent mother. Joe says that he found solace and growth in books, music, and the company of an unlikely assortment of older men who took an interest in him. Listen to an excerpt!
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