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What Ails the Short Story

September 30, 2007 – 01:03 pm

From Stephen King’s essay, What Ails the Short Story: “‘The American short story is alive and well.’ Do you like the sound of that? Me too. I only wish it were actually true. The art form is still alive — that I can testify to. As editor of ‘The Best American Short Stories 2007,’ I [...]

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Prince of Darkness

March 18, 2007 – 09:17 pm

From Prince of Darkness: “His dad is a topic he discusses with great reluctance, not because he doesn’t love the guy but because when you are as much your father’s son as Joe Hill is Stephen King’s, once you start talking about your dad, you might never get a chance to talk about anything else.” [...]

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Stephen King Glorifies His Muse

October 4, 2006 – 01:10 pm

The New York Times has a review of Stephen King’s new novel, Lisey’s Story: “This time out, Mr. King, one of the few true rock stars of the book world, has written a novel that like “Bag of Bones,” from 1998, or the novellas of “Different Seasons,” published in 1982, does not entirely forgo horrific [...]

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Bitch Slapping America’s Literary Critics

September 12, 2005 – 02:26 am

When Stephen King was awarded a Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the U.S. National Book Foundation in 2003, Harold Bloom, a Yale University professor, wrote in an editorial in The Boston Globe titled, “Dumbing down America’s readers,” that it was “another low in the shocking process of dumbing down our cultural life.” [...]

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