Tolkien called an ambitious “secondary world,” which in King’s case started as a dark, distorted vision of the Maine he knew and grew to encompass a universe. Because King has also created what J.R.R. A rookie reader can dip a toe in anywhere and succumb to the same narrative riptide that keeps King veterans from escaping his pull.īut King, whose every book becomes a best seller and, now more than ever, gets optioned for the screen seemingly the moment the manuscript is submitted, is as much of an outlier in the world-building department as he is in his popular success and unflagging pace of production. Most of King’s work isn’t explicitly serialized and doesn’t depend on knowledge of any other entries in his catalog. Constant Readers likely make up a minority of the enormous audience that King has cultivated over the past 45 years, a period during which his estimated lifetime count of book copies sold (more than 350 million) has easily exceeded the current population of the United States. It’s completely OK, and not uncommon, to like King and not find it fitting that the bodega on the real-life 46th and Second has roses for sale. The King Chroniclers and the Reimagining of an Icon of American Letters
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