Stephen King's grocery list (1992?)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

>From the Afterword to _Different Seasons_, 1982.

"The result of all this is that, when it came to the novellas you've
just read, I found myself in a puzzling position.  I had gotten to a
place with my novels where people were saying King could publish his
laundry list if he wanted to (and there are critics who claim that's
exactly what I've been doing for the last eight years or so), but I
couldn't publish these tales because they were too long to be short and
too short to be really long.  If you know what I mean."


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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Callan" <james.callan at COMCAST.NET>
> To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 8:04 PM
> Subject: Stephen King's grocery list (1992?)
>
>
> > For years, I've heard variations on the idea that Stephen
> King could
> > publish his grocery list and have a best seller. I've been
> trying to
> > track down the origin of that idea -- the original quote,
> even -- but
> > I'm not having much luck.
> >
> > One of the few related quotes I could find through Proquest
> was from
> > the LA Times on Jan. 19, 1992, in a parody list of "a few
> upcoming films":
> >
> > "Stephen King's Grocery List." A thriller torn from the
> shopping cart
> > of America's horror master. Martin Sheen stars as the Evil
> Bagel. (De
> > Laurentiis Ent.)
> >
> >
> http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=61567469&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=11206
> > &RQT=309&VName=PQD
> >
> > But I'd swear I'd heard that said about him even in the
> '80s, when he
> > was at the height of his best-selling powers. Can anyone find an
> > earlier version of the phrase? Or figure out if it originated about
> > Stephen King, or was said about earlier authors?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > James Callan
> > neologasm.com
> >
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