Stephen King's grocery list (1992?)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

 "Collected Pieces of Prose Journalism"
[Review of _The Books in Fred Hampton's Apartment_ by Richard Stern]
EDWARD M WHITE
Los Angeles Times; Aug 5, 1973; pg. N59

"After a while you begin to wonder if you will see every scrap of paper
Stern has touched in his adult life, including laundry lists and
Mother's Day cards;  you also wonder if even those scraps would continue
to show the craftsmanship of the professional . . .. Maybe he <i> should
</i> publish his laundry lists."


Erica Jong: Her Life Is an Open Book
JANE WILSON
Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File); Nov 24, 1974; pg. D1 [quote from
p. 10]
"At a certain point, when your name is 'hot,' you become a commodity and
people will publish anything by you -- laundry lists, anything."



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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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