Some reading for your retirement, Ed: Stephen King interviewed in the Guardian.

As her husband lay in hospital, Tabitha King, who is also a writer, bought the battered truck, not – as many stories have had it – so he could later beat it with a baseball bat, but because at that stage, she was convinced he would die in hospital and didn’t want it to wind up on eBay billed as the vehicle that killed America’s most popular novelist.

Since Fahrenheit 9/11 came out—and even before—critics and fans alike have wondered whether it’s simply preaching to the converted. But it isn’t just the left who are packing the pews to hear their thoughts echoed back from the pulpit. As self-described Republican Party reptile P.J. O’Rourke asks in the latest Atlantic Monthly, when was the last time a conservative talk show changed a mind?