Robin Wasserman: "Stephen King saved my life."

The Waking DarkAt the Atlantic:

Ender’s Game (along with everything Ayn Rand ever wrote) assures: You are special.

Flower in the Attic commiserates: You are trapped.

While King offers salvation: You are powerful.

We all know literature empowers youth—Stephen King, as is his way, turns the metaphor literal.

The comments section gets a little hairy (YA is stupid, etc., etc.), but the essay itself made me want to dig out a copy of IT.

Previously.