{"id":17121,"date":"2009-06-05T19:56:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T23:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=17121"},"modified":"2014-12-27T22:07:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T03:07:52","slug":"stephen-kings-body-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/05\/stephen-kings-body-of-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen King’s body of work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen King’s new story “Morality” was just published in the July issue of Esquire<\/i>. A few sentences of that story appeared on the front cover in a manner which cannot be matched by a Kindle.<\/p>\n

I recommend the piece, which is quite dark, reminding me a bit of the film Crimes and Misdemeanors<\/i>. Not in any aspect of the plot, but rather in its bleak outlook. <\/p>\n

The cover, however, was neither dark nor bleak … nor did its design have anything to do with the story itself.<\/p>\n

\"EsquireJuly2009\"<\/a>
\nYou can find out more about the creation of the cover here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Contrary to what the cover blurbs would have you believe, those sentences printed on model Bar Refaeli are not<\/i> the opening sentences of the story, which confused me a bit when I tried to read them as such and then continue on inside.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure why after having gone to all that trouble they let stand what appears to be a crossed-out typo just above her knee. But perhaps you were too distracted to notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stephen King’s new story “Morality” was just published in the July issue of Esquire. A few sentences of that story appeared on the front cover in a manner which cannot be matched by a Kindle. I recommend the piece, which is quite dark, reminding me a bit of the film Crimes and Misdemeanors. Not in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[323,460],"class_list":["post-17121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-esquire","tag-stephen-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17123,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17121\/revisions\/17123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}