Books, Arts & Manners: Stephen King, Gentrified

Bag of Bones, by Stephen King (Scribner, 529 pp., $27.50)

FOR those who, as Scribner vice president and publisher Susan Moldow delicately puts it, “have traditionally been content to let others actually read Stephen King” a warning: King is in the process of gentrification. Not only is Miss Moldow “not reluctant” to call his latest creepathon “a contemporary American classic” (by which she means a literary classic), but she has lined up blurbs for the novel from the likes of Gloria Naylor (“For years, I’ve been saying that Stephen King is much more than just a horror-fiction writer”) and Amy Tan (“What I admire most about Bag of Bones is its intelligence of voice”).

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Bag of Bones, by Stephen King (Scribner, 529 pp., $27.50)

FOR those who, as Scribner vice president and publisher Susan Moldow delicately puts it, “have traditionally been content to let others actually read Stephen King” a warning: King is in the process of gentrification. Not only is Miss Moldow “not reluctant” to call his latest creepathon “a contemporary American classic” (by which she means a literary classic), but she has lined up blurbs for the novel from the likes of Gloria Naylor (“For years, I’ve been saying that Stephen King is much more than just a horror-fiction writer”) and Amy Tan (“What I admire most about Bag of Bones is its intelligence of voice”).