Stephen King came to Pittsburgh and it was AMAZING! Before the event, the Tribune-Review asked me and some other local authors (Stewart O’Nan! Thomas Sweterlitsch!) to talk about how King influenced us…
loved seeing @littsburgh at our awesome @StephenKing event! pic.twitter.com/ljMyvIV4oi
— Penguin Bookshop (@PenguinBookshop) June 10, 2016
“Nick Courage admits he long resisted Stephen King’s books, in part because he can’t keep his eyes open during the previews for horror movies. But when a literary novelist Courage knew admitted to using King’s novels for guidance and inspiration for plotting, Courage picked 11/22/63, the novel about a time traveler who attempts to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
The next 10 books Courage read were all by King.
‘There’s a humanity in all of his novels that’s totally unique and undeniable,’ says Courage of Point Breeze, the author of the The Loudness. ‘That, to me — more than horror — is his fingerprint. He could write anything and that sensibility would shine through.’”
More: http://triblive.com/aande/books/10535730-74/king-stephen-says