Stephen King's writer-son Owen King has written a new book, We're All in This Together, a novella and four short stories featuring a liberal sniper, a circus freak abortionist, and a drug-addicted dentist. So, who doesn't he want to review his book? Christopher Rice, the writer-son of Anne Rice.

STEPHEN King's son, Owen, hopes the New York Times Book Review covers his debut novella and story collection, "We're All in This Together" but not if it commissions a certain other famous son of a horror writer to review it. "I just hope they don't get Christopher Rice to do it," Owen, 28, tells Post book critic Steve Garbarino. Christopher Rice is the novelist son of vampire fanatic Anne Rice. "It would make a mockery of all my hard-earned efforts," says the literary-leaning Owen, who's trying to avoid a "horror" typecasting.

RandomNerd

I'm lost

January 2005

JUL 11, 2005 03:26 PM

Wow, those are some shadows to live in.

[Edited on Jul 11, 2005 3:32PM]

Sticks

United Kingdom

June 2011

JUL 11, 2005 03:37 PM

From the Amazon link:

...in "Frozen Animals," King achieves a surreal blend of gory, vivid description of unanesthetized dental surgery layered with the drug-addicted dentist's intermittent memories of a happier past

Surely the key to avoiding horror typecasting is...not writing horror?

alpha_hazard

Fort Collins, CO

April 2004

JUL 11, 2005 04:32 PM

yeah, since everybody takes what the son of a vampire fictio writer writes so seriously.

Curiosity

Chicago, IL

January 2004

JUL 11, 2005 04:38 PM

I don't know about everyone else, but if I was the daughter of a famous writer, the last thing I would ever want to do is write.

Curi.

Lenore

SUICIDEGIRL

Oregon, USA

JUL 11, 2005 04:45 PM

Curiosity said:
I don't know about everyone else, but if I was the daughter of a famous writer, the last thing I would ever want to do is write.

Curi.

Unless you were actually good at it...

[Edited on Jul 11, 2005 4:46PM]

Cigarette

Cleveland, OH

April 2004

JUL 11, 2005 04:51 PM

Lenore said:

Curiosity said:
I don't know about everyone else, but if I was the daughter of a famous writer, the last thing I would ever want to do is write.

Curi.

Unless you were actually good at it...

Or, I don't know, liked it.

St_Expedite

New Orleans, LA

January 2004

JUL 11, 2005 04:59 PM

Well, if it's a crappy book that he was able to sell solely on the basis of his pedigree, I can't imagine anyone more appropriate to review his work than another writer's talent-free offspring.

laputa64

HOPEFUL

Valdosta, GA

JUL 11, 2005 07:08 PM

wow. i can't say that i have read anything by Owen but Christopher Rice is AMAZING!

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I'm lost

June 2005

JUL 11, 2005 03:11 PM

I'm lost

January 2005

JUL 11, 2005 03:26 PM

United Kingdom

June 2011

JUL 11, 2005 03:37 PM

alpha_hazard

Fort Collins, CO

April 2004

JUL 11, 2005 04:32 PM

Chicago, IL

January 2004

JUL 11, 2005 04:38 PM

SUICIDEGIRL

Oregon, USA

JUL 11, 2005 04:45 PM

Cleveland, OH

April 2004

JUL 11, 2005 04:51 PM

New Orleans, LA

January 2004

JUL 11, 2005 04:59 PM

HOPEFUL

Valdosta, GA

JUL 11, 2005 07:08 PM