Salon.com > Peter Straub http://www.salon.com Wed, 30 May 2012 06:12:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Stephen King, go home! http://www.salon.com/2001/10/18/horror/ http://www.salon.com/2001/10/18/horror/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/10/18/horror One of the disadvantages to having the literary world suddenly decide that you are a better writer than they once thought -- a change in fortune enjoyed in recent years by Stephen King -- is that eventually one of its perennial malcontents will start demanding that you live up to your new reputation. For, while fans of commercial fiction have uncomplicated feelings about its authors -- they admire their favorites and always hope that the new book is really good -- the literati's tortuous relationship to success demands that idols and darlings (or, more precisely, other people's idols and darlings) must regularly be pulled down and dragged through the muck. Only when an author is generally despised and dismissed can there be any true pleasure in stalwartly riding to his or her defense.

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