Stephen King

Finn Wolfhard: A child actor caught in our cultural Upside Down

With ‘Stranger Things’ and ‘It’, the Vancouver teen exemplifies a modern child actor’s odd bargain: conjuring others’ childhoods, while he lives out his own

Comically thick book

Books just keep getting longer

What’s behind literary inflation? Authors get more verbose as they garner success, but prestige TV has also changed readers’ habits

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Noted: Stephen King joins Twitter

But the prolific author seems to be at loss for words

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Found: Stephen King’s horror novel ‘Thinner’ turned into poetry

We came across this creative project on Scribd by Matthew Lee Knowles, who took the first and last word of every page of Stephen King’s Thinner and married them side by side. The resulting narrative is surprisingly poetic, like something the Surrealists might have come up with. Who would have thought that a horror novel about a curse that wreaks havoc and spawns murders and suicides could have inspired something so enchanting? Here it is:

Heart Attack Breath by Matthew Lee Knowles

Author Richard Bach recovers after nearly dying in a plane crash

And he finished the fourth installment of his bestselling book ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull’ to boot

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REVIEW: 11/22/63

Book by Stephen King

World’s most misguided musical returns

The world’s most misguided musical returns

The legendary 1988 flop Carrie is coming back to the stage, pig blood and all

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Newsmakers: Feuds

Etta and Beyoncé; Obama squared; geese take plane; Dunaway disses Duff