{"id":469,"date":"2007-05-28T15:03:01","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T19:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?p=469"},"modified":"2016-07-12T11:51:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T17:51:51","slug":"news-from-the-dead-zone-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/news-from-the-dead-zone-66\/","title":{"rendered":"News From The Dead Zone #66"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromthedeadzone.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/images\/banners\/DeadZone.jpg?resize=468%2C60&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Breaking News from the Dead Zone\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time in many years, Stephen King will be playing with the Rock Bottom Remainders again. The show takes place on Friday, June 1<sup>st<\/sup> at Webster Hall in New York City. The show is being billed as their 15th anniversary &#8220;Still Younger Than Keith&#8221; concert. Other band members and guests include Dave Barry, Amy Tan, Ridley Pearson, Scott Turow, Mitch Albom, Frank McCourt, Andy Borowitz and Roger McGuinn from the Byrds. The concert is a benefit for 826NYC, the New York affiliate of the organization Dave Eggers founded to get kids writing; the AAP&#8217;s Get Caught Reading program; and the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression. On May 31, some of the RBR band members will be appearing on <em>Good Morning America<\/em> to talk up the charities the band is supporting.<\/p>\n<p>Among those paying tribute to King at the gala in Toronto on June 8<sup>th<\/sup> will be Margaret Atwood and Clive Barker, and former Spin editor Chuck Klosterman is handling the evening&#8217;s on-stage interview.<\/p>\n<p>King&#8217;s newest story, &#8220;The Gingerbread Girl,&#8221; will appear in <em>Esquire&#8217;s<\/em> July issue, on stands June 15. Here&#8217;s how it&#8217;s described on King&#8217;s web site: &#8220;In the emotional aftermath of her baby\u2019s sudden death, Em starts running. Soon she runs from her husband, to the airport, down to the Florida Gulf and out to the loneliest stretch of Vermillion Key, where her father has offered the use of a conch shack he has kept there for years. Em keeps up her running\u2014barefoot on the beach, sneakers on the road\u2014and sees virtually no one. This is doing her all kinds of good, until one day she makes the mistake of looking into the driveway of a man named Pickering. Pickering also enjoys the privacy of Vermillion Key, but the young women he brings there suffer the consequences\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Publishers Weekly<\/em> review of <em>Blaze<\/em> is now up at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blaze-Novel-Richard-Bachman\/dp\/141655484X\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/002-5007709-8531269?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1180463153&amp;sr=1-1\">Amazon<\/a>. The Booklist review is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liljas-library.com\/article.php?id=907\">Lilja&#8217;s Library<\/a>. Publication date is June 12<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The King-edited 2007 Best American Short Stories is now up for pre-order at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0618713476\/\">Amazon<\/a>. It features 20 stories selected from over 400 King read last year, along with a list of 100 others worthy of mention that didn&#8217;t make the final cut.<\/p>\n<p>On July 28, The <em>Stand by Me<\/em> Celebration and Rolling Roadshow invites fans to re-live the classic coming-of-age film in Brownsville, Oregon where it was filmed. Fans can re-live the film during a 1-day celebration that includes viewing the film on a giant outdoor screen, a blueberry pie eating contest, 1950s vintage car cruise-in, sock hop, and a scavenger hunt for the dead body. There will be guest appearances by cast members.<\/p>\n<p>Issue 5 of <em>The Gunslinger Born<\/em> comes out on June 6th. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liljas-library.com\/article.php?id=907\">Lilja<\/a> has the sketch and variant covers on his web site.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Dead Zone<\/em> launches its sixth season on USA Network Sunday, June 17 at 10:00PM\/9:00 Central.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in many years, Stephen King will be playing with the Rock Bottom Remainders again. The show takes place on Friday, June 1st at Webster Hall in New York City. The show is being billed as their 15th anniversary &#8220;Still Younger Than Keith&#8221; concert. Other band members and guests include Dave Barry, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/news-from-the-dead-zone-66\/\" class=\"more-link button bg-gold white\">Continue Reading!<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;News From The Dead Zone #66&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49],"tags":[73,13,136,42,46,155,157,29,32,120,144],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-the-dead-zone","tag-best-american-short-stories-2007","tag-bev-vincent","tag-blaze","tag-featured","tag-news-from-the-dead-zone","tag-rock-bottom-remainders","tag-stand-by-me","tag-stephen-king","tag-the-dark-tower","tag-the-dead-zone","tag-the-gingerbread-girl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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