BDN advances Stephen King book launch at UMaine
The Bangor Daily News reported Stephen King will launch his newest book, “Hearts in Suspension,” at the University of Maine on Nov. 7. The 7 p.m. event in the Collins Center for the Arts will feature a reading by King and discussion of his student days at UMaine during the turbulent Vietnam War era. The event also will include a conversation with King’s former classmates and friends who were at UMaine with him during this time and who co-authored the collection. The 373-page “Hearts in Suspension,” published by the University of Maine Press, a division of UMaine’s Fogler Library, marks the 50th anniversary of King’s enrollment at UMaine — fall 1966. The book will pair a reprint of King’s novella “Hearts in Atlantis,” previously published in the 1999 collection of the same name, with a new essay titled “Five to One, One in Five,” in which he reflects on his undergraduate years, creating “a revealing portrait of the artist as (a) young man and a ground-level tableau of this highly charged time,” the BDN reported. Tickets for the Nov. 7 event are free and available according to the following timeline: Members of the UMaine campus community can register for one ticket each with a MaineCard at the CCA box office, during normal box office hours, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Oct. 12–14. Members of the public can register for two tickets per person online or at the CCA box office beginning Oct. 17.