Episode 82: Carrie

Friends, it’s our third annual Halloween series! We’re talking about Stephen King’s horror classic Carrie (1974), which is about a teenage girl with telekinesis, which the “scientists” cited in the novel conveniently refer to as “TK.” We discuss King’s uneven canon and its political resonances (lots of liberal stuff, but we obviously deliberately misread.) In typical BRtD manner, we talk about the evils of people who ask, “do you know who my dad is?” For those interested in Brian DePalma’s 1976 movie version, we touch on how it does and doesn’t follow the novel, and how they’re both really good.

We talk about the “female” body, high school social orders, and Skinny Legend Jonathan Edwards. We read the Anchor mass market edition. It’s about a different King novel, but we recommend Adrian Daub’s “Where ‘It’ Was: Rereading Stephen King’s ‘It’ on Its 30th Anniversary” from the LA Review of Books, September 11, 2016.

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