He’s no ordinary Joe
It took Joe Hill some time to step out of the shadow of his famous father Stephen King, but the acclaimed novelist has since made plenty of literary waves of his own, writes Nadine O’Regan
There’s a joke that the US chat show host Jay Leno once told his viewers. It goes something like this: “Stephen King says to his kids: ‘Let’s all have a bedtime story.’ And the kids go: ‘No!’ ” Joe Hill laughs as he tells the anecdote. Hill might once have disliked chatting about his extremely famous father, fearing the taint of fame by association, but he has long ago reached the point in life where...
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