Stephen King Receives U.S. Book Honor: You know, when I first heard about this, I didn't think it was a great thing. King's prose really isn't up to the level of other winners of this award. But then Harold Bloom sets his flabby mouth flapping:
"He is a man who writes what used to be called penny dreadfuls," Yale University Professor Harold Bloom told the New York Times. "That they could believe that there is any literary value there or any aesthetic accomplishment or signs of an inventive human intelligence is simply a testimony to their own idiocy."
And suddenly, I'm quite excited King has won the award.