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Article: Still conjuring dark forces ; (1) BOOK OF THE WEEK (2) He may have been slammed for dumbing down cultural life, but Stephen King's latest book is a distinguished contribution
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 21, 2008
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Duma Key Stephen King
HOW good is Stephen King really? In 2003, when he was awarded the
National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to
American Letters, King made a punchy speech arguing that popular
fiction in general deserved much greater critical recognition.
The pompous Yale professor Harold Bloom was infuriated. He
denounced the award as a terrible mistake, "another low in the
shocking process of dumbing down our cultural life". It was too kind
even to call King "a writer of penny dreadfuls", Bloom continued.
"He shares nothing with Edgar Allan Poe. What he is is an immensely
inadequate writer on a sentence-by-sentence, paragraph-byparagraph,
book-by-book basis." So ...
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Article: Duma Key BOOKS / Fiction
International Herald Tribune;
January 23, 2008 ;
700+ words
... ... York Times Media Group Edition: 1 Section: FEATURES Duma Key By Stephen King 611 pages. $28. Scribner. Reviewed by Janet Maslin * Stephen King's "Duma Key" ventures to an all-but-uninhabited Florida island ...
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