Joe Stretch
New boy makes a big noise
Joe Stretch, who joined the Centre for New Writing as a Writer in Residence in February, is making a splash with his first novel, Friction. The Independent heralded Joe as a "hot star of 2008" in its talent issue at the start of the year, and when it reviewed his novel in March, delighted in how Joe's "prose is a rhythmic jumble of aphorisms" and declared that the novel marked "the arrival of a promising satirist". In February, Manchester Confidential published an interview with him in which he talked about his influences and what readers can expect from his book.To read The Independent's March review, click here, and to see its talent entry, click here.
To read Manchester Confidential's interview with Joe, click here.