... ask the DeLillos and the Updikes and the Styrons, but they don't ask popular novelists."1 The above quote aptly illustrates the incredible bias that exists in academia today regarding popular literature. Many English departments are victims of a literary pretentiousness, whereby anything that the great unwashed masses read and enjoy must inherently have no scholarly value. Indeed, when I informed people that I was writing ... literature, as opposed to a great story. King's newest novel, "From a Buick 8", is more different still. While the supernatural certainly plays a role in it, it is...

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