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Stephen King's final writing step? Listening to the audiobook

His conversation with narrator Patton Oswalt remains a draw on Simon & Schuster Books during a week without new uploads.

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Stephen King & Patton Oswalt In Conversation: OTHER WORLDS THAN THESE

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0:48Oswalt describes cold-reading the audiobook while keeping track of complex emotional shifts between characters.
8:20King listens to his audiobooks to catch flaws, unintended rhymes and cadence problems.
11:15A question about Peyton Orville prompts King to reveal that the comedian character was based on Oswalt.
14:35King reflects on the sadness of saying farewell to the Talisman storyline and Mid-World.
23:33King recalls frightening himself while listening to an audiobook of his own story, "1408."

Stephen King listens for the things the printed page can hide: unintended rhymes, awkward cadence, flaws that become clearer when someone says the words aloud. In his conversation with Patton Oswalt, he calls the audiobook the final part of writing a book.

Posted more than a month ago, "Stephen King & Patton Oswalt In Conversation: OTHER WORLDS THAN THESE" has reached roughly 32,000 views and is drawing the most daily views among the channel's highlighted uploads. This is the publisher's interview promoting the audiobook, with Oswalt discussing the effort of keeping its characters' emotional shifts straight while reading the text cold.

There is a personal surprise, too: when Oswalt brings up the comedian character Peyton Orville, King tells him the character was based on him. The conversation also finds King reflecting on saying goodbye to the Talisman storyline and Mid-World.

Simon & Schuster Books posted nothing new this week, but its catalog collected about 65,000 views. Subscribers stayed unchanged, while daily views are running modestly above their usual level.

Other uploads finding readers include "Welcome to the Afterlife," introducing Taryn Delanie Smith's sharp-witted heavenly receptionist Denise, and "Dustin Hoffman discusses the title of his memoir." The latter pairs Hoffman with writer Ariel Levy to explain how Laurence Olivier inspired the title, another small glimpse of the people and conversations behind a book.

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