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Stephen King reveals why he almost trashed his latest novel — and why his dog may outlive him
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May 24, 2025
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By Janet Somerville Special to the Star
'Sometimes the universe throws you a rope.' That's what cop-turned-private investigator Bill Hodges tells his colleague Holly Gibney in Stephen King's 2015 novel 'Finders Keepers.' As Holly returns in 'Never Flinch,' King's new book, out May 27, that wisdom becomes a touchstone in all of the narrative threads.
The Dickens of our time spoke with me recently by phone from Florida where he winters with his wife of 54 years, the novelist Tabitha King, and their 10-year-old corgi, Molly, whom his social media followers will recognize by King's ironic nickname for her: The Thing of Evil. Throughout our conversation his generosity of spirit shone, reverberating, as Fitzgerald wrote, 'like a tuning-fork struck upon a star.'
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Janet Somerville is the author of 'Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love & War 1930-1949.'
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