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Today, just outside Boston, I delivered my presentation on Randall Flagg and Good fighting Evil. Afterwards, I heard many people telling each other that they wanted to start reading King, that they hadn't realized he has important things to say." Thank you all for your help in putting this talk...

Thank you, Skimom2. All that would come to mind was "laptop," and I knew that was an anachronism. :) To All, I just received notice that the organizers have accepted my conference proposal. I have to look up the exact date, but I think the conference is just after Halloween, at Gordon College...

I know that Oxford students of Shakespeare's day hated him because he'd never finished high school but his plays were more popular than theirs. I've often wondered if academics paid any attention to Dickens or Twain during their lifetimes. Yeah, a lot of my colleagues won't look seriously at any...

Thanks for that reference.

Thank you, Lily, for the list of bad guys. I KNOW that some of the books do have baddies whose initials are RF. I'm just too tired to recall at the moment. Deborah

For a long time, I've objected to the label of King as a "horror" writer. Not that he doesn't frequently present horrifying situations or sometimes just scare readers for the fun of it. But I also consider him a very serious craftsman, and much of his writing reminds me of Nathaniel Hawthorne...

I'm excited. I've finally had an academic forum except a paper proposal on a Stephen King novel. The theme of the conference is "All in a Day's Work," and I plan to speak about the ethics of employment as presented in The Green Mile. A key passage of course is when Brutal asks how he will...