Friday, November 20, 2009

51 Novels!!-Stephen King

Talking Volumes: A book club where the author shows up! My previous post featured Barbara Kingsolver who wowed the crowd at the Fitzgerald Theatre in St. Paul and last Wednesday night, Stephen King showed up to be interviewed by Terri Miller of Minnesota National Public Radio. He, too, was a huge hit with the audience. I wasn't seated as close to the stage as during my previous visits, but even at a longer distance my camera caught his facial expression that demonstrates his wit and humor. Again, it was a sell-out and to accommodate the crowd, part of the audience was seated on the stage behind King. He talked about the history of his literary career and read some passages from his most recent novel, "Under the Dome." Responding to audience questions about his books, he revealed that his favorite novel is "The Shawshank Redeption" and his favorite character is Gordon Lachance in "The Body" which was made into a movie called "Stand By Me",(somewhat autobiographical because the main character is a writer). We always wondered how he could get into the mind of a kid so well! His favorite movie is "Cujo." Although my husband is more of a Stephen King fan than I am, I loved the evening.

24 comments:

  1. I still haven't been in the Fitzgerald Theater! See you at "Pardon My French" today!

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  2. Very cool .. to be at a Steven King interview would make my day .. like your husband, I'm a fan.

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  3. I'm not a huge Stephen King fan either, but I do appreciate his talent. How lucky you are that NPR is doing all these interviews in your own backyard!

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  4. tu as de la chance, une lecture par le grand Stephen King, cela doit etre vraiment superbe

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  5. Not a real fan, but I like most of the things he writes: there is more in Stephen King that weird stories. Nice to know that his favorites are also my favorites...
    Thank for introducing us to your book club, which is really something special!

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  6. Lucky you! To see and hear King must have been exciting. Great audience shot Kate!
    V

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  7. What magic is spun at the Fitzgerald. Thank you for sharing some of it with us.

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  8. That sounds like a really good evening. Good photo to.

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  9. Wow - that's pretty cool! I'm a huge fan of Stephen King - would have made my day too!

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  10. It's very interesting to have chance to attend to a writer conference and interview. About S.King I personally agree with you.

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  11. What fun to get to see these two famous authors!
    I popped over to see you and Leif at your breakfast meeting. That must have been great fun!

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  12. this would be neat, I remember staying up late reading his novels when I was in the Air Force,

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  13. It must have been fun to see these two authors! It was great to get to see you and Leif at "Pardon My French"!

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  14. Oh my! Lucky you! I would have loved to be there...

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  15. Another good one! My favorite of his books made into a movie is Christine. Loved Stand by me too.

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  16. Lucky you, as others have said. And how great you met Leif too - just love it when we bloggers meet up. Great that an author who is as successful as Stephen King takes the times to attend a writer's conference. Good for him.

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  17. Kate - my daughter and granddaughter were sitting slightly to the left of stephen king -behind him on stage - i am wondering if you got any photos of the people behind him? we would LOVE to have some
    thanks much mrr

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  18. Kate - if you do have pics can you e-mail me at MRendon703@aol.com - not the gmail/i never check it - thanks mich

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  19. Not really a fan of this kind of literature (or movies) either, but it must have been fascinating to listen to him! Wouldn't have missed it either if I would have been in St. Paul!

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  20. Sure that was a great evening to hear a writer speak about his/her life experience instead of reading his work. Thanks for sharing!

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  21. Stephen King has a frightening resemblance to a CEO I worked for. A really nice guy, actually, but probably with spooky hidden depths

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  22. I love these literary postings. In answer to your literary question, I do indeed have an attic room of my own. It's a great place to get some perspective on my little world.

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  23. great one!
    i got really scared while reading 'shining'.

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  24. Stephen King is wrong. Shawshank Redemption is a better movie than Cujo.

    But I suppose he has a right to his own opinion about that sort of thing. :-)

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