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Reading frightening books helps youngsters deal with their fears, says bestselling Irish author John Connolly.

Mike White not only wrote School Of Rock , but he was an extremely likable contestant on The Amazing Race .

Stephenie Meyer's teen angst-fest sucks all the fun out of vampire mythology. The film may not be high art, but it knows how to entertain.

Photo: "Blue" by turnip[turnip] , member of the blogTO Flickr Pool . Events on Toronto's Radar for THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19, 2009... lovingly handpicked from blogTO's events calendar .

Last update: November 18, 2009 - 10:18 PM Stephen King and Audrey Niffenegger at the Fitzgerald Theater in St.

I work in a library, and my husband is a public library director. We both love to read.

Q What's on the stereo today? A I'm listening to a lot of alt-country -- Ray Wylie Hubbard, Robbie Fulks.

What: Stephen King and Audrey Niffenegger talk with Kerri Miller of MPR and take questions afterward.

Running through Stephen King's 1,100-page domesday novel - " and you will run through it - " one of your first thoughts will be: That didn't feel like an 1,100-page novel.

Tickets: $28 and $33 at ticketking.com When Stephen King was honoured with the Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2003, the National Book Foundation said, "He crafts stylish, mind-bending page-turners that contain profound moral truths a ' some beautiful, some harrowing a ' about our inner lives." And that was before Under ...

When the perennially prolific Stephen King announced in 2002 that he was giving up the writing life, many of his devoted fans admitted that might not be such a bad idea.

Under The Dome by Stephen King Hodder & Stoughton, 896pp, A 19.99 Review by STEPHEN MCGINTY I READ IT, Stephen King's 1,120 page masterpiece, and perhaps the first new hardback book I owned, in late January after my prelims.

If you have read a Stephen King novel exceeding 500 pages, you probably don't need to read "Under the Dome." If you do read "Under the Dome," you might not need to read another Stephen King novel again.

Stephen King 's new novel is predicated on, and takes its epigram from, the song "Small Town", one of country-singer James McMurtry's savagely compressed and contemptuous indictments of American life.

A shy teenager with telekinetic powers goes to her high school prom, only to have a bucket of pig's blood dumped over her head.

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Stephen King's latest, Under the Dome , is out today. It's 1,100 pages and is being compared to The Stand .

Today marks the release of Stephen King's new novel, Under the Dome , a doorstopper of a book that I cannot WAIT to sink my teeth into.A To celebrate its release, here is a list of King's best and worst work, as judged by me, a famed literary critic.

Huck Finn said it bluntly: "Human beings can be awful cruel to one another." And in "Under the Dome," a massive cautionary novel, Stephen King smears a broad, blood-red Hi-Liter across "awful cruel." "Under the Dome" marks the return of the "old" King.

Playboy has a perhaps surprisingly strong literary background, publishing works by authors including John Irving, John Updike, Vladimir Nabokov and Margaret Atwood.