Prolific Authors

Damn, I love that George Murray.

George Murray, a poet and co-editor of the literary blog Bookninja.com, sees the near-annual release of a new Stephen King novel as "the literary equivalent of watching a skinny Japanese dude scarf down 100 hot dogs in an eating contest; you are kind of grossed out, but gotta hand it to him." Murray harbors a unique theory about what distinguishes a genre writer like King from a so-called serious artist like Joyce Carol Oates. "It seems with Oates the hotdog eater is a performance artist commenting on the nature of consumption and American hegemony," Murray avers. "With King it's just a guy eating 100 hot dogs, then looking like he's going to die of nitrate poisoning."

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