What I’m Reading: “`Salem’s Lot”

I love Stephen King. I watch his interviews and lectures on YouTube, and I re-read his book, On Writing, once or twice a year, finding it one of the best meditations on the craft around,  not to mention a very fine memoir. I follow him on Twitter, and you should, too (he’s @StephenKing, if you’re interested).

And yet, in one of the stranger ironies of my adult life, I went over twenty years without reading a King novel. Sure, I once devoured books like The Stand and Firestarter in high school, but then I became an English major and, for a multitude of reasons, I stopped.