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Stephen KingThere was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasyโโanyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about.
Stephen KingThese self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and any broad literary stroke with outright hate. The result is a strange and arid literary climate where a meaningless little fingernail paring like Nicholson Baker's Vox becomes an object of fascinated debate and dissection, and a truly ambitious American novel like Matthew's Heart of the Country is all but ignored.
Stephen King