{"id":358402,"date":"2025-08-20T03:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/358402\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T03:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:16:10","slug":"stephen-king-attends-bangor-release-of-book-building-upon-the-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/358402\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen King attends Bangor release of book building upon \u2018The Stand\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BANGOR, Maine (WABI) &#8211; Bangor\u2019s own Stephen King attended a book release in the Queen City Tuesday evening at Bookspace on Columbia Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Three of the 36 authors, Richard Chizmar, Catherynne M. Valente, and Michael Koryta, who worked with him on the new book The End of the World As We Know It spoke about it and their creative processes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The book itself is an anthology of short stories building upon The Stand, King\u2019s longest work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">King authorized it and wrote the book\u2019s introduction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It was released worldwide on August 19th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gibran Graham, who owns <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/briarpatchbooks\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/briarpatchbooks\">The Briar Patch Bookstore<\/a> in Bangor tells us he\u2019s already sold out, though he has more copies on the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">We asked Stephen King what it felt like to have other authors expand on his original story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt feels really good. I mean I think it\u2019s nice that they care enough to do that and that they remember the book and carry it to another generation. So, I think that\u2019s great,\u201d said King<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe authors did these events all across the country including Canada and London. So, it really was sort of worldwide. It\u2019s pretty good to be included and have that happen here in Bangor,\u201d Graham stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">King spoke also spoke about his writing process in The Stand at the end of the Q and A with the authors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When he didn\u2019t know where to go in its plot, he said he took the advice of novelist Raymond Chandler who said to have a man come in with a gun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WABI. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BANGOR, Maine (WABI) &#8211; Bangor\u2019s own Stephen King attended a book release in the Queen City Tuesday evening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-358402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115058926308450393","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}