VIDEO BONUS: Caroline Bicks on Stephen King, 'The Stand,' and a Year of Frightening Research
The author discusses the work that went into her new book, "Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King."
If you are a fan of Stephen King’s writing, I highly recommend checking out Monsters in the Archives, the fascinating new book by Caroline Bicks. As I shared in last week’s interview, Bicks is an author, professor, Shakespearean scholar, co-host of the Everyday Shakespeare podcast, and the inaugural Stephen E. King Chair in Literature at the University of Maine. Thanks to her day job, she was able to get unprecedented access to King’s archives, and spent her yearlong sabbatical studying five of his earliest novels—Carrie, ’Salem’s Lot, The Shining, Pet Sematary, and Night Shift.
We chatted for about an hour, and there were some things that didn’t make it into our published interview. So, I’m happy to share video exclusives from our chat.
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In these videos, you’ll hear about…
what was off-limits in the research and writing process
how the research began to seep into her personal life
why she didn’t include Stephen King’s The Stand in her book
that pesky rumor about Stephen King’s ghostwriter
Enjoy!
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