Random House: Father Joe
April 22, 2008
A key comic writer of the past three decades has created his most heartfelt and hard-hitting book. Father Joe is Tony Hendra’s inspiring true story of finding faith, friendship, and family through the decades-long influence of a surpassingly wise Benedictine monk named Father Joseph Warrillow.
The New York Times: Father Joe
April 22, 2008
SAINTS are perhaps always best evoked by sinners. And it would be hard to think of someone more at ease in the world of modern sin than Tony Hendra. He is and has been a brilliant satirist, an alum of National Lampoon in its glory days, an architect of the peerless parody rock documentary, ”This Is Spinal Tap,” a man who has known (and tells us of) serial sex and drugs and rock and irony. But this extraordinary, luminescent, profound book shows us something wonderfully unexpected and deeply true.
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Bookreporter.com: Father Joe
April 11, 2008
Along with a gaggle of smart (just ask us!) young men in New York, I worked with Tony Hendra on a number of humor projects two decades ago. Beyond our wit, we all shared one attribute — in the words of the lone female on the team, “You’re all guys who don’t want to go home.” My reason was prosaic: no girlfriend. Hendra’s, it turns out, was more complicated.