The Book Club: My Year of Fear with Stephen King
About this episode
Caroline Bicks discusses her book on Stephen King and the insights gained from his work.
My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Caroline Bicks, who tells me how she put her academic work on Shakespeare to one side to produce her new book Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King . She tells me why she thinks King’s work is worthy of critical attention, what we can learn from the radical way he revised his early work, what it is like dealing with the man himself – and how there are some parts of his early novels that he even scared himself with. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Keywords
- early novels
- Monsters in the Archives
- critical attention
- revision
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