Thalia Book Club: Stephen King's Lisey's Story

Best-selling author Stephen King discusses his book, Lisey’s Story. King’s most personal and powerful novel explores wellsprings of creativity, the temptations of madness and the secret language of love.

“King makes bold, brilliant use of his satanic storytelling gift, his angelic ear for language, and above all his incomparable ability to find the epic in the ordinary” (Michael Chabon)

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Reading
Maria Tucci

Conversation
Stephen King and John Connolly

John Connolly published his first novel, Every Dead Thing, in 1999, introducing the character of Charlie Parker, a former policeman hunting the killer of his wife and daughter. The Charlie Parker novels that followed were Dark Hollow, The Killing Kind, The White Road and The Black Angel; the next in the series, The Unquiet, will be published early next year. Connolly is also the author of the collection Nocturnes and the novels Bad Men and The Book of Lost Things. He divides his time between Dublin and the United States, where each of his novels has been set. He is a freelance journalist for The Irish Times.

Stephen King has written more than forty novels and two hundred short stories. He is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. King has also received the O. Henry Award for his story “The Man in the Black Suit,” and he is the editor of The Best American Short Stories 2007. Among his most recent worldwide bestsellers are Cell, the Dark Tower series, On Writing, The Green Mile, and Bag of Bones. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

Maria Tucci has worked on and off Broadway in plays such as Night of the Iguana, The Rose Tattoo, Athol Fugard’s A Lesson from Aloes, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Spokesong, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Little Foxes, Drinks Before Dinner, The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, Antigone, and others. She translated Filumena and Christmas in Naples by Eduardo De Filippo for the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and a collection of her translations was published in 2001. Ms. Tucci appears frequently on television in Law & Order.