Steve's Garbage Truck

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GNTLGNT

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Neesy

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Does anyone have a copy of one of these?
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Stephen King wrote a weekly column for the Campus in the 1970s and also published short stories such as Slade in the newspaper. According to Haunted Heart by Lisa Rogak:

After writing a few articles and essays for The Maine Campus, Steve decided to approach the editor, David Bright, about writing a weekly column. Bright gave him the go-ahead, and his first column appeared on February 20, 1969. Steve christened his column "The Garbage Truck" because, as he put it, "You never know what you're going to find in a garbage truck."

From the beginning, Bright liked Steve's writing, but he wasn't overly fond of the nerve-racking style in which Steve cranked out his columns. AN hour before the deadline with no column in sight, Steve would show up at the paper's office. Bright, wringing his hands, would tell Steve how many column inches he needed to fill for that issue.

Steve would then sit down at one of the big, hulking green typewriters in the newspaper office and bang out his copy, letter-perfect with no cross-outs, no corrections, no crumpled-up pieces of paper, and meet his deadline with moments to spare.
 

skimom2

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I must be the most clueless King fan alive. I've never heard of a lot of the soopersekrit stuff that people talk about here, and never gave a thought to special editions, limited editions, multiple copies, etc. etc. I've been doodling along in my word tent for years, just happy to get a new story once or twice a year-lol :D