![]() ![]() King prefaces the list with a disclaimer: “I’m not Oprah and this isn’t my book club. He includes several non-fiction books as well. ![]() King recommends contemporary realist writers like Richard Bausch, John Irving, and Annie Proulx alongside the occasional postmodernist or “difficult” writer like Don DeLillo or Cormac McCarthy. Rowling sit comfortably next to lit-class staples like Dickens, Faulkner, and Conrad. Best-selling genre writers like Nelson DeMille, Thomas Harris, and needs-no-introduction J.K. As evidence of his disregard for academic canons, we have his reading list for writers, which he attached as an appendix to On Writing. Few contemporary writers have challenged the somewhat arbitrary division between literary and so-called genre fiction so much as Stephen King, whose status provokes word wars like this debate at the Los Angeles Review of Books. Whatever adjectives critics throw at him, King plows ahead, turning out book after book, refining his craft, happily sharing his insights, and reading whatever he likes. ![]()
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