Reading Joyland by Stephen King

My partner couldn’t have chosen a better birthday present for me than the latest novel from Stephen King, and I’m glad she couldn’t wait till my birthday (still more than a week away) to give it to me.

I don’t think there’s ever been a greater writer than King. Even the weakest of his more than 50 books are compelling page-turners with something serious to say about life and death. He’s certainly the greatest chronicler of American working people (something...