When will King's next novel be announced??
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I saw that in the COMING SOON section on the home page. Hearts in Suspension should be a very interesting read
COMING SOON also mentioned SK has written a new short story titled The Music Room which will appear in an anthology titled In Sunlight or in Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper. I looked at Hooper's paintings and tried to guess which painting SK used as inspiration. I'm guessing it's one of the paintings of lighthouses. What do y'all think?
It's nothing to do with a lighthouse. I don't remember the title of the painting but it features a man and a woman sitting opposite each other in a room, she is turned away from the man and looking out a window (at least I think that's what she's doing.....).I saw that in the COMING SOON section on the home page. Hearts in Suspension should be a very interesting read
COMING SOON also mentioned SK has written a new short story titled The Music Room which will appear in an anthology titled In Sunlight or in Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper. I looked at Hooper's paintings and tried to guess which painting SK used as inspiration. I'm guessing it's one of the paintings of lighthouses. What do y'all think?
EDIT: Forgot to add the title of the painting: Room in New York
Indeed that is the one, as Ms. Mod just confirmed. Also he read this entire story on the book tour at the PA event. It was great. He also showed the picture on his tablet for those who could see.
Hopper is my favorite artist and King is my favorite author- how can it get any better?!
Did SK say why he chose the painting Room in New York? Why it inspired him to write a story?
I haven't seen the actual book yet so don't know if each author included the reason why they chose the painting they wrote about or if the editor chose it for them. He'd sent his story straight to his agent so I wasn't privy to what led up to it. I'll try to remember to ask him.
Or maybe he mentioned it at the National Book Festival and someone who attended can let us know. I haven't had a chance to watch the video yet.
I don't know if this is the thread for this question, maybe a dedicated one already exists, but what precisely is the point of the Suspension collection? It sounds like a fascinating book, but what I'm getting at is I'm wondering if this is to allow the university that is publishing it to make money, sort of like a fundraising effort, in a sense. I think it's going to be a good book, but I did already read the Atlantis work, and I'd be less than honest if I said I was interested in the non-King writings in it. I would like to read the Garbage Truck columns, but I'm not sure I need to read them, if you know what I mean; plus, too bad they simply can't be posted on the university site. Just not certain why King engaged this project considering his time is valuable.
Now, forgive me, I'm too lazy to quote a previous post, but to the person who expressed a desire for the next book to be a long one -- believe me, I hear you on that, but, just speaking solely for myself, I'd rather King's latter bibliography to be composed of shorter books -- even Carrie-length would be fine. As I get older, I find reading longer works to be a younger person's game, and I just want to get to as many King ideas as I can (yet, I do admit that for some of King's shorter works that I've recently read, I was hoping they were longer; go figure that one out, I guess).
Now, forgive me, I'm too lazy to quote a previous post, but to the person who expressed a desire for the next book to be a long one -- believe me, I hear you on that, but, just speaking solely for myself, I'd rather King's latter bibliography to be composed of shorter books -- even Carrie-length would be fine. As I get older, I find reading longer works to be a younger person's game, and I just want to get to as many King ideas as I can (yet, I do admit that for some of King's shorter works that I've recently read, I was hoping they were longer; go figure that one out, I guess).
After Stephen's nonfiction, my favorite stuff is his short stories or novellas. He just quickly gets to the point and tells the tale, and I like that.
...it may well be his way of giving back to the University, even more than he already has....sometimes you just do things because you WANT to, not because it's expected of you or you're driven to it....
article from Bangor Daily News:
Stephen King will release in early November a new book detailing his college years at the University of Maine. “Hearts in Suspension,” to be published by the University of Maine Press, a division of Fogler Library, will be unveiled with a public reading by King and others at the Collins Center for the Arts, set for 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7.
“Hearts in Suspension” combines a previously published novella, a new essay, essays from his friends and colleagues, photos and other documents and five of King’s vintage newspaper columns from The Maine Campus, UMaine’s student newspaper. The Nov. 7 event will include a reading of the book and discussion of King’s student days at UMaine during the turbulent Vietnam War era, followed by a conversation with his former classmates and friends who were at UMaine with him during this time, and who co-authored the collection.
“Hearts in Suspension” will pair a reprint of King’s novella “Hearts in Atlantis,” previously published in the 1999 collection of the same name, with a new essay titled “Five to One, One in Five,” in which he reflects on his undergraduate years, creating “a revealing portrait of the artist as (a) young man and a ground-level tableau of this highly charged time.” The book publication coincides with the 50th anniversary of King’s first semester at the University of Maine, followed by the escalating Vietnam War and social unrest nationwide, especially on college and university campuses. Those years had “a profound impact on students of the period and deeply influenced King’s development as a writer and a man,” according to the publisher.
Along with photographs and documents of this era at UMaine are four installments of King’s column in The Maine Campus, “King’s Garbage Truck.” The columns, reprinted for the first time, are described by the publisher as “lively examples of King’s damn-the-torpedoes style.”
The book also features essays by 12 of King’s classmates and friends, including Jim Bishop, who taught King when he was at UMaine, alongside Burton Hatlen; Bishop has also written the book’s introduction. Michael Alpert, David Bright, Keith Carreiro, Harold Crosby, Sherry Dec, Bruce Holsapple, Frank Kadi, Diane McPherson, Larry Moskowitz, Jim H. Smith and Philip Thompson also have contributed essays. “Hearts in Suspension” is dedicated in memory of Hatlen and two of King’s other inspirational professors at UMaine: Edward “Ted” Holmes and Edward “Sandy” Ives.
“Hearts in Suspension” combines a previously published novella, a new essay, essays from his friends and colleagues, photos and other documents and five of King’s vintage newspaper columns from The Maine Campus, UMaine’s student newspaper. The Nov. 7 event will include a reading of the book and discussion of King’s student days at UMaine during the turbulent Vietnam War era, followed by a conversation with his former classmates and friends who were at UMaine with him during this time, and who co-authored the collection.
“Hearts in Suspension” will pair a reprint of King’s novella “Hearts in Atlantis,” previously published in the 1999 collection of the same name, with a new essay titled “Five to One, One in Five,” in which he reflects on his undergraduate years, creating “a revealing portrait of the artist as (a) young man and a ground-level tableau of this highly charged time.” The book publication coincides with the 50th anniversary of King’s first semester at the University of Maine, followed by the escalating Vietnam War and social unrest nationwide, especially on college and university campuses. Those years had “a profound impact on students of the period and deeply influenced King’s development as a writer and a man,” according to the publisher.
Along with photographs and documents of this era at UMaine are four installments of King’s column in The Maine Campus, “King’s Garbage Truck.” The columns, reprinted for the first time, are described by the publisher as “lively examples of King’s damn-the-torpedoes style.”
The book also features essays by 12 of King’s classmates and friends, including Jim Bishop, who taught King when he was at UMaine, alongside Burton Hatlen; Bishop has also written the book’s introduction. Michael Alpert, David Bright, Keith Carreiro, Harold Crosby, Sherry Dec, Bruce Holsapple, Frank Kadi, Diane McPherson, Larry Moskowitz, Jim H. Smith and Philip Thompson also have contributed essays. “Hearts in Suspension” is dedicated in memory of Hatlen and two of King’s other inspirational professors at UMaine: Edward “Ted” Holmes and Edward “Sandy” Ives.
This book is just another way that Steve shows that he has not forgotten his roots. Sure, a lot of famous people get 'Honorary Degrees' from their alma maters years after they have left and have gone on to BIG THINGS (i.e. become famous) and many of these famous folk have donated sums of capital to the schools they attended (as Steve has), but how many authors have done something like this as a pay back for the years that they were students? Most of us here know where Steve went to this school, but this publication is going to not only make some up-front cash for the school, it's going to give the school world-wide attention and I would imagine will increase attendance there also in the years to follow. It's a big thing for Steve to do this and a really big thing for the U of M.
Same here. Some of the books by him that I have not loved as much, usually was due to how verbose or carried away he can get. His short stories are super amazing!
Well, a'yuh, I dig those shorter, faster works, mainly a hard, mean novella. Like a precise, swift jab from an ice pick.
But I'm a sucker for those thick, heavy, 1000 page epics, oh yeah. Like a big ol King 'townie', where ya settle in and stay for days and days, until, after awhile, you feel like one of the many characters who inhabit the creepy little place. Feel like I've lived for a spell in towns like Castle Rock, Derry, Haven, an apocolyptic version of Boulder, Calla Bryn Sturgis, etc.
Same here, Muskie. Say, what did you think about Under the Dome? It was okay, but I was disappointed.
I loved it. To me it felt like a down-home return to form for some vintage 'townie' King. One of my recent faves.
I think I'll read it again, then. The first time I was rushing through it because it was on a waiting list plus I found myself grimacing through the abundant Republican bashing. Now, I think I could overlook that. I will say it was a fun and exciting read. You're right about the return to his vintage roots.
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I can't imbed the video, but here is a link to a recent interview with Sai King
Coincidentally we both have the same fear:
plus it apparently runs in my family 
- Dad had it
I can't imbed the video, but here is a link to a recent interview with Sai King
Coincidentally we both have the same fear:
Alzheimer's - this is what I fear the most
- Dad had it