Thinking About Stephen King

“No one is better at prying open the ordinary reality of evil, the way our nightmares emerge from our daily experience, from our fears and our frustrations, our envy and our rage….King, at his best, affects us: by revealing the deepest — and yes, the darkest — aspects of ourselves.”

—David Ulin, a terrific literary critic, casts his eye on King’s “merit as a writer” on the Los Angeles Times website

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