I posted last week that King would be publishing a new short story titled, "Batman and Robin have an altercation." Lauren Walter has posted at Examiner,
Stephen King has a new short story available on Tuesday, August 28, in the latest issue of Harper's Magazine. It’s King's first time featured in Harper's. The story features a middle-aged man and who has a weekly lunch with his Alzheimer’s afflicted dad. After three years of the same lunch and the same conversation, the man is saved from a violent assault by his father. (www.examiner.com)Harpers gives this introductory tease:
Sanderson sees his father twice a week. On Wednesday evenings, after he closes the jewelry store his parents opened long ago, he drives the three miles to Crackerjack Manor and sees Pop there, usually in the common room. In his “suite,” if Pop is having a bad day. On most Sundays, Sanderson takes him out to lunch. The facility where Pop is living out his final foggy years is actually called the Harvest Hills Special Care Unit, but to Sanderson, Crackerjack Manor seems more accurate. (www.harpers.org)What does a man with Alzheimers have to do with "Batman and Robin have an altercation" ? I don't know! King's short story titles have been a little more daring lately -- example, Herman Wouk Is Still Alive.
Will we be able to get this in the UK?
ReplyDeleteIt was out as early as this past Friday in Barnes & Noble stores.
ReplyDeleteIt's an excellent story.
The B&N near my house closed a few months ago, leaving my area without ANY book stores. I was lucky to find "Esquire" at a local grocery store for King's and Hill's novella, but, the store doesn't carry "Harper's Magazine".
DeleteGuess I'll have to order it online...