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What should I read? > Close-up magic tricks: The short fiction of Stephen King

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message 1: by Erica (last edited Nov 02, 2016 02:28PM) (new)

Erica "Stephen King is one of the most commercially successful authors of all time, and yet he regularly and enthusiastically works in one of the least commercial genres: short fiction.

As he puts it – somewhat self-effacingly – in his introduction to Everything’s Eventual, 'I’ve continued to write short stories over the years, partly because the ideas still come from time to time – beautifully compressed ideas that cry out for three thousand words, maybe nine thousand, fifteen thousand at the very most – and partly because it’s the way I affirm, at least for myself, that I haven’t sold out... short stories are still piecework, the equivalent of those one-of-a-kind items you can buy in an artisan’s shop.'"

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