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...oldest stories in literature: a boy goes forth into the world, forsaking his past, only to return home as a man and discover that it was where he was always meant to be. And so it was for Joe Hill. After years of getting nowhere peddling middlebrow literary fiction ("stories about divorce and children trying to figure out their parents," he calls them today), Hill began to write tales of murderers, evil spirits and giant bugs--the kinds of subject matter better associated with his father Stephen King. And like the heroes of such stories, Hill (who writes under...
...literary apprenticeships go, Hill's was tough to beat. "I'd come home from school and find my mom [novelist Tabitha King] in her office clattering away at the keyboard, and my dad would be in his office sitting in front of his word processor," he says. "By the time I was 11 or 12, it seemed perfectly natural to go to your room and make stuff...
...realized that the New Jersey of Philip Roth is as much a pure product of make-believe as Alice's Wonderland. If all fiction is make-believe, then writers should not deny themselves great metaphors like ghosts and angels and devils." For Joe Hill, that's the stuff home is made...
Thus comes what you might call the realitization of reality: the evolution of once private, or at least obscure, acts into performance. The diary becomes the blog. The home-movie collection becomes the YouTube channel. The résumé becomes the public search-result page...
Even MTV, home of Jersey Shore, has the high-minded 16 and Pregnant (which often features working-class families, who scarcely exist in network drama nowadays); The Buried Life, about four friends who travel the world helping people accomplish things they want to do before they die; and My Life as Liz, a sort of reality My So-Called Life about a high school outcast in small-town Texas...