![]() There's also a Selectman, uh, who is pretty much under the thumb of the book's, uh, main antagonist, because she has a drug problem that she's concealing, uh, an Ox圜ontin thing. In fact, Barbie wants to leave conflict behind, because when he's faced with, uh, problems and, uh, trouble with four of the young men in town, his response isn't to, um, face up to these guys, but to leave town in order to avoid the confrontation, because of the Iraq situation. Dale Barbara's the main character in the book, and, uh, he has left the military and he wants to leave all this stuff behind. KING: Well, Barbie has a history in Iraq, um. But everybody has a secret or two.īERTRAND: Uh, but I bring up, too, that Barbie has the Iraq history.īERTRAND: Which maybe applies to all of us? So people talk there's a lot of neighborliness. "Hey! How's the kid?" "Oh, they're fine." Or: "Did you hear about Shirley, whatever her- her little girl's got spina bifida," or whatever. KING: One of the things that, uh, you learn from novels like Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson or Peyton Place by Grace Metalious is that, in small towns, everybody thinks they know everything, because you meet these people every day and you exchange information. Every snowflake is a snowflake, by definition, but there are never any two alike.īERTRAND: It seems, too, that this book is a little bit about collective guilt or shame. And I've always maintained that if you haven't seen another, uh, movie on the subject or read another book on the subject, these things are never alike. This force-field thing, where you're trapped.īut it's really not a question of whether or not something's been done before, or the basic situation's been done before, but what you can do with it. ![]() It's too much like the Simpsons Movie."īut I.I wasn't aware of it until the book was actually in galleys, when my sister-in-law read it and said, "You know what? This reminds me of the Simpsons Movie." And I kind of went, "Oh, no, geez." It's an idea that's, uh, that's been around for a long time. The first thing is: if I'd actually ever seen the Simpsons Movie, this book might not exist, because I would have said, "Oh, man, I don't want to write that. KING: Well, um, it's certainly- I'm aware that it's a question I'm going to have to answer on the tour over and over again, but there are two things to know. We live on a little blue world, and I thought, "well, let's put it in a little, uh, context that people can grasp, where it's just a town, and we'll see what happens."īERTRAND: When I talk to my friends about Under the Dome, and give them the first sentence, they almost all say, "Oh, like the Simpsons Movie."īERTRAND: Which must also be a little annoying. ![]() And I was sort of fascinated by that, and by a lot of the ecological, um, ramifications, because we're really all under the dome. So you can sort of see it, but basically it's this transparent thing where you can't get through. They shoot a missile at it- uh, the military does, in an effort to bust through. Uh, you can only the dome when the pollution starts to build up on it. ![]() ![]() Yeah, around the time of The Stand, I originally had the idea for Under the Dome, which is basically a novel about a whole town that's caught under a.an invisible- almost like a bell-jar. Uh, a couple starts and stops, right? Mid-70's when you first started it? Stephen, welcome.īERTRAND: Tell me about Under the Dome. He is one of the few American authors who not only writes about pop-culture: he's helped form it, and he joins us now. STEVE BERTRAND: Whether you have read all of his books, or none of them Constant Reader, Stephen King has had an impact on you. Interview by Stephen King with Steve Bertrand for Barnes & Noble: Meet the Writers on 3 November 2009. ![]()
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