On Stephen King, Comic Books, Proust, and Chekhov

a lil critical essay on Cycle of the Werewolf too

I've been reading a bunch of Daredevil comics lately while making the long reading trek through In Search of Lost Time. Reading the Proust novels is slow going, often reading a page of that takes as long as reading ten pages of something like Jim Thompson, or Stephen King.

When I read dense literary fiction that makes me consider and reconsider what li…