Welcome back to prom season at the bookcase with Kate and Charlie.

If you don't know what that references to, you weren't listening last week and then shame on you.

I'm Charlie Gibson.

I'm Kate Gibson.

And actually this week, my mom and I took a safari, and we went over to the park, and we actually viewed the kids getting their pictures taken. So, like, it was a whole... We didn't take a van with the top off or anything like that, but we did walk over to see the prom kids. If you were listening, you know that Kate gets very. She lives across from a beautiful park in

Minneapolis, and the kids show up for their prom pictures, and Kate was rhapsotic about all of it

last week. I even yelled at the wildlife this week. It was like, hey, your hair is perfect. You look

beautiful. I love your shoes. It is. There's such hope in those kids when they show up for proms.

This week, as you know,

as we've said often, this is a podcast with two generations, two genders, looking at books.

And we extend the two business this week in that I think for the first time in what over 200 shows,

we have two books. We get a lot of books, and there's

some that we just can't fit in, and so we're doing two, and you say, well, they must be related.

No, they're not. Not even remotely. They're totally unrelated. We have a wonderful book by

Lori Frankel called Enormous Wings, which is really interesting and quite funny. And then we have a book

for Stephen King fans. It's not written by Stephen King. It's written about Stephen King. You

should explain. Yes, I was really excited to receive this book. Monsters in the Archives,

My Year of Fear with Stephen King by Carolyn Bix.

Carolyn Bix is the inaugural Stephen E. King Chair of Literature at the University of Maine.

She's also a Shakespeare scholar and Shakespeare professor, like you do.

And so she has gone through Stephen King's archives for a lot of his great books in the 70s,

Carrie, The Shining, Night Shift, Pet Cemetery,

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