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Biography: Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned, John A. Farrell (Doubleday)
Current Interest: Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Fiction: Luminarium, Alex Shakar (SoHo Press)
Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: Shards, Ismet Prcic (Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic)
Graphic Novel: Finder: Voice, Carla Speed McNeil (Dark Horse)
History: Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, Richard White (W.W. Norton & Company)
Mystery/ Thriller: 11/22/1963, Stephen King (Scribner)
Poetry: Double Shadow: Poems, Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Science & Technology: Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, Sylvia Nasar (Simon & Schuster)
Young Adult Literature: The Big Crunch, Pete Hautman (Scholastic Press)
“They did not look out their windows. No matter what noises or dreadful possibilities, no matter how awful the unknown, there was an even worse thing: to look the Gorgon in the face.”
― Stephen King, ‘Salem’s Lot
“She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand’s reach of memory.
She doubted if they all sensed it - they had seen the world - but even George was silent for a minute as they looked, and the scene, the smell, even the sound of the band playing a faintly recognisable movie theme, was locked forever in her, and she was at peace.”
― Stephen King, Carrie
“People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.”
― Stephen King, The Stand
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“Children of the Corn” is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the March 1977 issue of Penthouse, and later collected in Mr. King’s 1978 collection NIGHT SHIFT.
The story was first adapted into a short film in “Disciples of the Crow” (1983). A year later, the story was adapted into a larger-budget film re-adopting the original name, “Children of the Corn” (1984), starring Peter Horton and Linda Hamilton. Several sequels and quasi-remakes followed. An uncredited Charlize Theron, Naomi Watts and Eva Mendes have each appeared in one of the sequels. Other well known actors who have made sequel appearances include Nancy Allen, Stacy Keach, Ahmet Zappa, Karen Black, David Carradine, Fred Williamson and Michael Ironside. In September 2009, the Syfy channel premiered a new television movie version – which is based on Mr. King’s story.
New Mural at the Ocean City Free Public Library Puts a Face to Famous Authors…
Artists Nancy Palermo and Susan Rau have coordinated once again to create another beautiful mural at the Ocean City Free Public Library (NJ). The mural depicts 10 authors (Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, J.K Rowling, Gay Talese, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Margaret Atwood, William Shakespeare, James Joyce and Maya Angelou) sitting on the beach with their most famous works.
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Stephen King’s favorite books from “The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books.” Mr. King’s choices reflect that the notion that terrifying fiction lies not in the invention of otherworldly creatures, but in the examination of what is monstrous in human nature…
1. ‘The Golden Argosy,’ edited by Van H. Cartmell and Charles Grayson
2. ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,’ by Mark Twain
3. ‘The Satanic Verses,’ by Salman Rushdie
4. ‘McTeague,’ by Frank Norris
5. ‘Lord of the Flies,’ by William Golding
6. ‘Bleak House,’ by charles
7. ‘1984,’ by George Orwell
8. ‘The Raj Quartet,’ by Paul Scott
9. ‘Light in August,’ by William Faulkner
10. ‘Blood Meridian,’ by Cormac McCarthy
Read more here.
“People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.”
― Stephen King, The Stand
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.”
–Stephen King
