One of the first symptoms of the decaying world is that the internet mysteriously ceases to function-something to ponder when that endless buffering circle appears on your screen thanks to the world’s bandwidth-straining Zoom calls and Netflix bingeing. In the offbeat “The Life of Chuck,” the fabric of reality gradually disintegrates while alarmed and confused characters puzzle over how any of it could really be happening. But fair warning-King devises an entire new way of destroying the world in one of the stories. Relief from quarantine fatigue is one reason he and Scribner decided to release his new book, the novella collection If It Bleeds, this month, a few weeks ahead of its planned May debut. Unlike the father in The Shining, King hasn’t gone mad yet, but he knows that boredom can push anyone to the edge.
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