Episode 105: The Body

Better Read than Dead: Literature from a Left Perspective

There is still plenty of spookiness left in the season! To celebrate, this week we are bringing you Stephen King’s The Body from his 1982 collection Different Seasons, also containing Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption and Apt Pupil. We talk about poverty and violence in rural America, masculinity, class, epic, and the classic Philadelphia tradition Wing Bowl. We get into the 1986 film adaptation Stand By Me, starring Wil Wheaton, who is also the star of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It’s not that bald guy, it’s the kid.

We read the Signet edition. Check out King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000) or one of his 65 other novels (seriously) or hundreds of short stories (also seriously) if you are interested in haunted cars, scary sewer clowns, or the various terrors of New England.

*Note to listeners: Megan is off this week. She’ll be back with us next time for The Monk!

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