I Write Like Compares Big Boi, Sleigh Bells to Stephen King, Dan Brown

By Lindsay Eanet at 2:12 PM on July 14, 2010

Sure, we writerly types would all like to think we’re the next Nabokov or Hemingway. Luckily, I Write Like is here to fulfill all our unreasonable delusions! The website invites you to put in your finest literary work and, through a presumably-algorithmic analysis tool, tells you what great writer your work resembles. Of course, the Tumblr community promptly went and destroyed our precious egos by informing us that, according to I Write Like, Mel Gibson’s rants had airs of Chuck Palahniuk, LFO’s “Summer Girls” echoed Vonnegut and Justin Bieber’s “Baby” was in the tradition of James Joyce. With that in...  read more

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Ron Howard Gets Rights to Stephen King's Dark Tower

By Lindsey Lee at 1:30 PM on May 5, 2010

Stephen King’s Dark Tower book series has been through a bit of a journey on its way to the screen. Lost co-creator J.J. Abrams’s company Bad Robot originally held the rights to it, hoping to adapt it into a TV series. Abrams then returned the rights to the author, according the The Washington Post....  read more

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Stephen King Lends Voice to Shooter Jennings Concept Album

By Rachel Bailey at 12:00 PM on January 8, 2010

Stephen King has had no shortage of help telling his tales of terror. For a 2009 audiobook, he called on the likes of Matthew Broderick and Tim Curry to relay stories of murder and apocalyptic tragedy. Now, it seems, King is paying it forward, lending his voice to Shooter Jennings’ debut album with his new band, Hierophant....  read more

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Artist publishes Stephen King character's novel

By Matt Goodlett at 9:43 AM on January 12, 2009

Does reading an entire book consisting only of the words, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" sound like a good time? If so, boy does Phil Buehler have a book for you! An artist and fan of the Stephen King's work The Shining, Buehler has self-published the lost manuscript from the character Jack Torrance, the obsessed writer who slowly goes insane while holed up in the Overlook Hotel....  read more

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Signs of Life 2008: The Best Books We Read This Year

By Stephen King, Amy Sedaris, Clyde Edgerton, Daniel Wallace, Elizabeth Gilbert, <br>Hillary Jordan, Laura Tohe, Roy Blount Jr., Tom Bissell, Thomas Cahill,<br> Charles McNair at 7:59 AM on November 17, 2008

For the second consecutive year, Paste asked a constellation of authors to share with us the books they admired most in the past year. We offer their thoughts, musings and endorsements with no further prologue—after all, you’ve got some reading to do. ...  read more

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Catching Up With... Frank Darabont

By Tim Basham at 11:17 AM on November 29, 2007

As I sit across a small table from Frank Darabont in an upscale hotel suite, it becomes apparent that the talented writer and director of The Mist not only excels at translating Stephen King’s other literary works into Oscar nominated films (Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile)...  read more

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Dusted Off: Pet Sematary

By William Gay at 4:03 PM on November 2, 2007

By the time Pet Sematary was published...  read more

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