As I’ve recently reviewed two of King’s books on this site, it’s only natural I’d go hunting for him on you tube. Here is an hour long interview he gave with British journalist Mark Lawson shortly after the publication of Lisey’s Story, which would make it around two years old. In it he talks about the nature of marriage, his early life and writing as mentioned in On Writing, his battles with addiction and his experiment with an online serial. It’s an interesting interview, especially when King discusses his award from the National Book Foundation and gets on the subject of literary snobbery. King says the world of readers is already a small place, and making it smaller by exclusion and discrimination is behavior unsuited to lovers of the written word, and ends up “letting the air out of what vitality is left in the community.”
He also remarks that the act of writing is a kind of “transitive madness.”
Unfortunately this interview is chopped into seven pieces — I’m only posting the first part but if that piques your interest you can find the rest by following this link to you tube.
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Wow. That was good. Thanks.
Glad you liked it, Paul. There weren’t many in depth interviews like this with King, that I could find, and I was pretty impressed with all the ground he covered.