Stephen King Archives Vol. 12: The Pop of King: 2005
Added 2024-02-28 18:52:42 +0000 UTCConstant Listeners, there is an archives to the Derry Private Library. Thanks to our Losers' Club historian Bryant Burnette, we have unearthed an entire vault of Stephen King material. From unpublished short stories to long-forgotten interviews, dusty manuscripts to alternate versions of your favorite tales, there is much to discuss...
If you recall, last year we began discussing Stephen King's EW column, The Pop of King, for its 20th anniversary. You'll also recall that we were initially going to discuss the column in one fell swoop as part of The Stephen King Archives as we're wont to do here in this Club.
Bad idea jeans, we realized, and so we opted to spread it out a bit. So, if you're just starting, be sure to revisit last June's episode for Volume 1 before you begin this latest entry. And what entry is that? In this episode, Randall Colburn, Rachel Reeves, Dan Pfleegor, and Justin Gerber dial things back to 2005 and zero in on King's comically acerbic reviews, recommendations, and takedowns to discuss how that era of culture resonates now.
Topics include King's prophetic belief that stars don't sell movies, stories do, his bizarre hatred of DVD extras, his warning to the creators of Lost to not fuck up the ending (lol), his complicated thoughts about the work of Bret Easton Ellis, his annoyance with fancypants critics and their disdain of popular fiction, and his favorite (and our favorite) movies, books, and music of 2005.
Read the accompanying works here.
Comments
All this talk of Red Notice propaganda and they did the same with Red One 🤣 you cant convince me that movie was a hit.
Jennifer Bennett
2025-01-05 14:29:11 +0000 UTC
