Oops, sorry about that, folks. Must have had something to do with using key words more than once in one post.

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Perhaps not "social academic brownie points" so much as social academic brownies -- high on themselves, one might say, Mr. King.

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Those two posts make it seem as if you're hungry, Bookninja.

Shakespeare, Faulkner, King

Some critics think Stephen King deserves his NBA award for his literary merit.



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Shut Up and Enjoy Your Mansions, Dammit!

Lynn Coady speaks out on Stephen King’s speech at the NBA awards.



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Does Stephen King read Shakespeare? That's the question. I'm guessing he does, if only for the eye-gouging and ear-poisoning.

The Shining is a damn good read... but don't read it alone in a big old creaky house.

Should King have taken his shots from the National Book Award stage. Why not? Would a better writer have been more subtle and cutting? No doubt. Grisham as culture... that's a stretch.

I heard his speech on CBC radio. WHAT is up with that man's voice? He's the Michael Jackson of voices.

King Hospitalized with Pneumonia

He attended last weeks awards ceremony with it. Hopefully he passed it to Grisham.



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Okay, that explains the voice.

He should rest. The world would be a much less scary place without him.

Wait a second...

Return of the King

Do you think the picture accompanying this article is on Bloom's dartboard?



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It Would Be Touching If It Wasn't So Petulant

The transcript of Stephen King's NBA speech. (LOL* Golden Rule Jones)



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King's Ka-tet Set to Go Ka-plooie?

I read the Gunslinger** about twenty thousand years ago and really liked it. But my attention span is ONLY SO LONG!



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Stephen King: Television Magnet

Though apparently with a polarity too much like this critic's. King's foray into television is Kingdom Hospital, where the all the patients are DOA and the prescription for television boredom is for another injection of HORROR HORROR HORRORRRRR! OooOoo! Rowr! Boo! Agh! Reuters' prognosis is much kinder.



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Stephen King Set to Unleash All the Powers of Hell Upon ABC

Which is more than his failing series is doing, I hear.... (If you go to his site with a fast connection, you can get a virtual King to poke repeatedly in the eye. At least, I think that's what it's for...)



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Overdose... Riiiight...

Stephen King, profiled.

King's head left a many-tentacled crack in the windscreen. He broke his right hip joint, four ribs and his right leg in nine places. His spine was damaged in eight places. "The accident gave me a real sense of mortality, a sense of hurry that I didn't have before. Not immediately, but about a year after the accident I was able to say: 'That guy nearly killed me.'" Smith died of an overdose 15 months later on September 21, King's birthday.

Hear that Bloom? 15 months... He can make it happen, Harry.



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Bangor, Maine: Like, Horrorsville, man

Take a tour through Stephen King's hometown... "And if you look to your left you'll see the well that leads straight to Hell. And on your right is a limping Mr. King himself, leveling a shotgun at the bus window... Ladies and Gentlemen, as this isn't part of the planned tour, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for visiting Bangor, Maine and remind you that a significant part of your tour guide's remuneration comes from the generosity of folks like yourselves..."



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Criminal sues Stephen King

Claims King ripped off The Green Mile. Because we all know King is so desperate for storylines that he's willing to risk his longstanding career to cop an idea.



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Now batting for Team Underdog... Stephen King!

It's an age-old story: Man writes novel; man is rejected repeatedly; man writes novels and plays for 30 years supporting himself as a voice over actor; man auditions for Stephen King tv show; man is rejected yet again; man is signed to book deal two weeks after King endorses him in national column.

" 'The Memory of Running' is the best novel you won't read this year," King wrote in Entertainment Weekly. "So why can't you read it? Because— so far, at least— no publisher will touch it with a 10-foot pole."

The column worked like an expertly crafted provocation. Within two weeks of its publication, McLarty had his contract.

It's almost like it's not news... (It's funny to see the Post run even wire stories on literary matters. Though I suppose a quick keyword search would reveal the piece as suitable. It does contain the words, Danielle, Stephen, Steel, and King, after all.)



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Hey,
I had an online conversation with someone, and it went like this:

Him: ok, ok, i gotta run. thank you ma'am. Keep that rose
Me: (?)
Him: heh
Me: waaait...what?
Him: ght
Him: read more stephen king and youll find out
Me: alright then. at least name a title or something...with--and I'm just shooting in the wind here--something about said rose.
Him: maybe, its an allegory.
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What in the world is he referring to?!