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• [1] Ron from Upper Eastside October 18, 2007 - 12:12PM

  Wasn't the movie "Shawshank Redemption" a Stephen King Short Story?

  
  
• [2] Paul Puglisi October 18, 2007 - 12:43PM

  Yes it was based on the novella 'Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" in the collection Different Seasons.

  One of the finer collections of novellas published. It included The Body and Apt Pupil, the two other novellas from that collection made into movies as well.

  
  
• [3] Shay from Brooklyn October 18, 2007 - 12:46PM

  Collections like this should be published simulatneously in hb and in pb. The US publishing industry's non-changing obsession with hb editions is baffling to me.

  
  
• [4] John Hanic from Cleveland, OH October 18, 2007 - 08:16PM

  Shay, the collection Best American Short Stories 2007 WAS published simultaneously in hardcover and as a trade paperback. I have one of the trade paperbacks, signed by King.

  
  
• [5] UZUMAKI from http://uzumaki-bla.blogspot.com October 19, 2007 - 03:59AM

  King knows best.

  
  
• [6] pat denholm from hackensack nj October 19, 2007 - 09:46AM

  Stephen King mentioned a number of short fiction magazines --

  Do you remember the ones he mentioned? Are their others you'd recommend?

  thanks

  
  
• [7] Todd Mason October 19, 2007 - 11:04AM

  The magazines King mentioned include THE NEW YORKER, SEWANEE REVIEW, TIN HOUSE, GLIMMER TRAIN, THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION (on the cover FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION), ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE (ELLERY QUEEN in the logo on the cover), ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE (ALFRED HITCHCOCK...)--as he says, you'll find at least some of them at the big box bookstores and in the better newsstands elsewhere, often tucked away (though a lot of periodicals clerks aren't sure what to do with them...the mystery magazines and ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION and ANALOG SF irregularly show up in a supermarket near my home, and they sometimes are stacked with the puzzle magazines, sometimes with the teen magazines and comics, and sometimes with the science and hobby magazines).

  
  
• [8] Todd Mason October 19, 2007 - 11:04AM

  Among the best--well, I agree with King that FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION is one of the best fiction magazines by any measure curretntly published, and ASIMOV'S is nearly as good among the mostly-sf magazines...REALMS OF FANTASY is one of the better and most widely-distributed of fantasy-fiction magazines (and it might be misfiled among movie magazines!), and ALL HALLOWS (which won't be on most newsstands, but you can find about it and its publishers the Ghost Story Society online) and CEMETERY DANCE (on some newsstands) are among the best horror-fiction magazines. ONTARIO REVIEW (which Joyce Carol Oates helps to edit and publish--out of Princeton, NJ, these days), BOULEVARD, SOUTHWEST REVIEW, ZOETROPE ALL-STORY, and to some extent TIN HOUSE are among my favorite and most easily-found eclectic fiction (etc.) magazines...along with such other worthies as GRANTA, CONJUNCTIONS, ALASKA QUARTERY REVIEW, KENYON REVIEW, and more. http://www.thefix-online.com/ is one of the many online sources of reviews of short fiction magazines (including online magazines).

  
  
• [9] Shay from Brooklyn October 19, 2007 - 11:10AM

  To John Hanic - thanks! The Amazon link on this site brought me to the hardcover so I assumed the worst.

  
  
• [10] Shay from Brooklyn October 19, 2007 - 11:12AM

  Hi again, Amazon seems only to sell the hb.

  
  
• [11] Todd Mason October 19, 2007 - 11:23AM

  Shay: fwiw, Amazon defaults to the hc, but just under the "Used and New" boldface, you'll see a link to the less-expensive qp edition.

  Pat Denholm: Another guide to fiction magazines is the appendix to this and most other annual best-of fiction anthologies (there are dozens, eclectic and specialized, these days)...and when they don't have appendices listing magazines, check the copyright-credits pages...

  
  
• [12] Todd Mason October 19, 2007 - 12:41PM

  And on WBUR's HERE AND NOW this afteroon, King also noted some of the titles I mention above, as well as giving a story from HARPER'S special attention (HARPER'S still highlights its fictin more than THE NEW YORKER does, and THE ATLANTIC has created its own fiction ghetto in an annual issue that isn't sent to subscribers). And he mentioned there as well as in his Lopate interview THE SATURDAY EVENING POST of his childhood, which was a major fiction market into the 1960s...the current ghost of the old magazine usually reprints a single short story from the old days, usually one of the milder ones.