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Stephen King shout-out on Threads


Print/Online Media: 

The Financial Times Weekend Magazine, “Facing the Boogeyman,”
May 16, 2026
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The Boston Globe, “A Shakespearean scholar spent a year in Stephen King’s private archive. Now she shares what she found.”
April 28. 2026
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Wall Street Journal
 April 29, 2026
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Harvard Magazine
June 3, 2026
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Bloomberg, “What do Stephen King and Shakespeare have in common?”
April 24, 2026
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The New Statesman, “Stephen King Is Our Dickens”
May 15, 2026
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The Chicago Tribune, Cool Books for a Hot Summer
June 3, 2026
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Slate, “How Stephen King made The Shining even scarier,”
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The Portland Press Herald, Interview, 
April 19, 2026
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The Ellsworth American, “Blue Hill author chronicles a year with Stephen King’s works,”
April 21, 2026
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New York Magazine
Asked & Answered

The New York Post
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Parade
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The Guardian
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New York Post
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Inside Hook
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Kirkus (review)
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Lit Hub
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Shelf Awareness (review)
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The Rising Tide 
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Stanford Magazine
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Electric Lit, “7 Literary Characters who Break the Teen Girl Trope”
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Book Page (starred Review)
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Book Page, “Behind the Book”
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Cemetery Dance Review
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Goodreads: 144 Books about Books
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Writer’s Digest
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Urban Woman Magazine
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Lit Hub (excerpt from Chapter 1)
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Shelf Awareness
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The Nerd Daily (review)
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The Nerd Daily, Feature Q&A
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Bloody Disgusting
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Broadcast:

The Next Chapter/CBC Radio
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BBC NewsHour (starts at 39:30)
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“Maine Calling” (on Maine Public Radio):
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KJZZ-FM (Tempe, AZ)
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Television:

“207” / News Center Maine, Interview
May 19, 2026
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CBS News Boston/WBZ-TV, Interview
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WABI-TV/CBS (Bangor, ME)
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Podcast Interviews:

Woo Woo with Rachel Dratch:
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Poured Over, the Barnes & Noble Podcast
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The Book Case with Kate and Charlie Gibson/ABC News
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The KingCast
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El Mundo de Stephen King
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The Commentary Magazine podcast
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Across the Pond
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Anna Rose Reads
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Dave Reads King
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New Books in Literary Series/New Books Network Podcast
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In Conversation . . . with Frank Schaeffer
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“Fiction/Non/Fiction”
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“The Book Club”/The Spectator
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Talking Scared
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The Losers Club
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Lilja’s Library
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Reduced Shakespeare
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Books are My People
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The Year of Underrated Stephen King
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Dave Reads King
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“Paper Cuts” /Macbre Daily
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“The Academic Life”
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Downtown with Rich Kimball
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Capes and Tights
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Lit Hub
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Downtown with Rich Kimball
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