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 The Boston Globe Firestarter
06/24/2002: 828 words, approx. 3 pages Until last week, the things that frightened Go! most were George Orwell's "1984" and Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." What happened last week? We heard Sally Jesse Raphael use the expression "You're all that, and a bag of chips." Absolutely horrifying, but we digress. With... summary from source:
The Daily Mail (London, England) Firestarter.
09/02/2005: 1,156 words, approx. 4 pages Byline: STUART NICOLSON How cameras captured him torching the hotel CAPTURED in the cold gaze of the CCTV camera at 2.15am, the kilted figure crouches furtively beside a curtain in the Whisky Room of a luxury hotel. Had security staff been following... summary from source:
 AP News Studio head Frank Capra Jr. dies
12/21/2007: 592 words, approx. 2 pagesFrank Capra Jr., a producer who helped build a major television and movie studio and whose father directed the Christmas classic "It's A Wonderful Life," has died. He was 73.Capra Jr. died Wednesday night at a hospital in Philadelphia, said Bill Vassar, the executive vice... summary from source:
The New York Observer Mailer's Archive Opens in Texas
1/4/2008: 421 words, approx. 1 pagesIt has been almost two months since Norman Mailer died. "Before that he lived a big, loud life, which he spent asking questions, accumulating bruises and setting all kinds of people’s hair on fire," according to the Observer's Leon Neyfakh. Boxes full of papers of...
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 Critical Essay by John Brosnahan
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A master of psychic terror returns with [Firestarter], yet another study of strange phenomena guaranteed to enthrall his audience. Two college students sign up as paid guinea pigs for a secret and unknowingly dangerous government experiment in telekinesis…. When the subjects marry and have a baby, however, their child develops not only telekinesis but pyrokinesis as well; in short, the tot can not only push things with her mind, but set them ablaze as well. The government's plan to use the gir... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Paul Stuewe
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[Firestarter is another] smasheroo from a writer whose books haunt bestseller lists as well as impressionable imaginations. This is your advanced post-Watergate cynical American thriller with some eerie parapsychological twists, and it's been done so distinctively well that we'd better talk about genius rather than genre. Complex characterizations, credible dialogue and a no-nonsense prose style are among the uncommon virtues King brings to popular fiction, and his novels will be read long aft... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Kirkus Reviews
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[Firestarter is an] improvement over The Dead Zone, with King returning to his most tried-and-true blueprint. As in The Shining, the psi-carrier is a child, an eight-year-old girl named Charlie; but instead of foresight or hindsight, Charlie has fire-starting powers…. Dumb, very, and still a far cry from the excitement of The Shining or Salem's Lot—but King keeps the story moving with his lively fire-gimmick and fewer pages of cotton padding than in his recent, sluggish efforts. The bui...
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