Issue 6 of online arts journal The Manchester Review goes live
15 Mar 2011
The Manchester Review has just launched its sixth issue with an exclusive extract from Jennifer Egan's award-winning novel ‘A Visit from the Goon Squad’
The novel, acclaimed in the USA but not yet published in the UK, is a hard-hitting comedy that follows the fortunes of a US punk rocker turned record producer.
The Manchester Review, published by The University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing, appears each spring and autumn offering a mix of new music, public debate, visual art and video as well as fiction and poetry.
This edition also contains exclusive extract from "Edgelands" by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts - a brilliant new study of the overlooked places between city and country. There are also brand new voices in fiction and poetry - Manchester graduate Rebecca Perry, new Irish poet Kevin Cahill, and Robert Smith, a young American short story writer whose story "Slash" combines, sadness, sex and sudden acts of violence.
Co-Director John McAuliffe said: "The Manchester Review takes its cue from the proactive promotion of new writing, but uses online media to show and sponsor the interplay of poetry, fiction, music, visual art and essays by new and established practitioners.”
"It is already finding new readers and audiences for exciting and innovative creative work, which is steeped in traditional virtues.”