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Joe Stretch (born 7 January 1982) is an English writer and singer. His first novel, Friction, was published by Vintage Books at Random House in 2008. His second novel, Wildlife, was published in 2009. His visceral, savage writing style has led to comparisons with French novelist Michel Houellebecq. [1]
Joe Stretch is the author of three novels – Friction, Wildlife and The Adult. The Adult was nominated for the Portico Prize and received the Somerset Maugham Award in 2012.
- j.stretch@mmu.ac.uk
- Senior Lecturer
Bending Ourselves in Leisurely Ways: An Interview With Joe Stretch – 3:AM Magazine. Interview by Andrew Gallix. 3:AM: I believe you studied politics at Manchester University: why not the more obvious choices of literature or creative writing? When did you become serious about writing? JS: By the time I left home, I hated literature.
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Joe Stretch, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing Department of English. When people think of creative writing, they often imagine a solitary writer, typing away. This, says Joe Stretch, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, is the “myth of the author”.
I am a Senior Lecturer in English and Editor of The Byron Journal. I studied at Oxford and Liverpool and held posts at Chester and Aberystwyth before arriving at Keele in 2009.
Joe Stretch‘s stunning debut Friction — a car crash between Michel Houellebecq and Bret Easton Ellis — packs the meanest of punches and fizzes with verbal felicity. The wunderkind from Manchester is also lead singer with (we are) performance whose second album is in the pipeline.
