Category: Stephen King
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In Which I Disagree With a Stephen King Narrator
I finished reading the first story in Stephen King’s newest collection, You Like It Darker. The story is about “Two Talented Bastids,” as the title so eloquently describes. These two bastid besties grow up in a small town in Maine. Around midlife, seemingly out of nowhere, their latent talents bloom, and they suddenly become wildly…
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Lost in the Corn Fields
When I was little, my greatest fear was getting lost. Yet, despite this being THE most terrifying circumstance I could imagine, I forced my mother to read a children’s book called Bambi Gets Lost. It was one of those Disney Kid book club books and it was my favorite. Strange selection, right? If your greatest…
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Stephen King (and Tobias Wolff) to Receive National Medal of Arts!
Stephen King, the Man His Own Self, is receiving — according the Wikipedia entry on “National Medal of Arts” — the highest honor bestowed upon artists from the people. (As if all of us throwing our money at King in unison isn’t enough!) Stephen King and Tobias Wolff Quite frankly, I didn’t even know this…