But King has also unleashed a lot of dross on the world. Some of his novels are powerful works of the macabre and certain of his early stories-think of “The Last Rung on the Ladder,” “Night Surf,” “Quitters, Inc.,” “The Man Who Loved Flowers,” “The Woman in the Room,” “Nona,” and “Survivor Type”-are resonant, shudder-inducing tales that compare favorably with anything by Salinger or Capote. King adds continually to a vast and uneven corpus of work. Press play to hear a narrated version of this story, presented by AudioHopper. King publishes everything from works of supernatural horror to gritty crime stories to tales marked by Chandleresque melancholy and the social realism of a Russell Banks writing about New England’s losers and sad sacks. Does Stephen King still have it as a writer? The 73-year-old scribe churns out book after book and story after story every year, running circles around younger authors in terms of productivity, not to mention versatility.
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