Revisiting Stephen King’s ‘Leisure Weekly’ Column “The Pop of King” [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

Stephen King and Leisure Weekly return a protracted methods.

The pair’s relationship started with a handful of grouchy letters to the editor during which King excoriated the journal’s movie critics. Kin’s barbed phrases, nevertheless, solely motivated the outlet to recruit the creator — after he reviewed a Harry Potter e-book for them, the editors requested him if he’d need to like his personal month-to-month column. In July of 2003, the Pop of King, a full web page of King’s pop cultural musings, debuted.

In June 2023, The Losers’ Membership was initially going to debate the column in a single fell swoop of their Patreon-exclusive Archives sequence. Nevertheless, after studying by the primary 12 months and alter, they found there’s an excessive amount of brilliance, too many dangerous takes, and an excessive amount of pure bile to not unfold this out a bit.

Be part of Losers Randall Colburn, Jenn Adams, and Dan Caffrey as they dial again to 2003 and 2004, utilizing King’s comically acerbic evaluations, suggestions, and takedowns to debate how that period of tradition resonates 20 years on. Subjects embrace horror (clearly), poptimism, The Ardour of the Christ, child boomers, gradeflation, film quotes, dying, pet peeves, and Mystic River.

And that is only the start.

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