Last Friday, I celebrated a birthday – and I will egotistically say that I appreciate the prominence of the date in Stephen King’s bibliography. Among other things, January 19 is the day of the final showdown in Christine, it’s the deadline for Barton George Dawes to move out of his house in Roadwork, and it’s the day that King finished writing The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands (per the author’s journal entries featured in The Dark Tower VI: The Song Of Susannah). But there’s no time to go over all of the appearances of the date, as there are more significant stories and developments in the world of Stephen King from the past week to discuss.
In this week’s edition of The King Beat, there is a brand new Dollar Baby Film you can watch for a limited time, and news of a King short story that will be published this spring and won’t be included in the new collection You Like It Darker. But before we dig into those stories, let’s first put a spotlight on Stephen King’s multi-Tweet reaction to this week’s Academy Award nominations.
