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Night Shift is the first book for which King wrote a foreword. The introduction was written by one of King's favorite authors, John D. MacDonald. MacDonald writes that "Stephen King is a far, far better writer at thirty than I was at thirty, or at forty.
Publisher IDW rereleased the story in a portfolio edition shot from the original art in 2014. [2] [3] A twelve-minute Dollar Baby short film, The Lawnmower Man: A Suburban Nightmare, was released in 1987. It was written by future screenwriter and New Line Cinema production executive Michael De Luca (In the Mouth of Madness) and
"Nightshift" is a 1985 song by the Commodores and the title track from their album of the same name. The song was written by lead singer Walter Orange in collaboration with Dennis Lambert and Franne Golde as a tribute to soul/R&B singers Jackie Wilson and Marvin Gaye , both of whom died in 1984.
Quizlet made its first acquisition in March 2021, with the purchase of Slader, which offered detailed explanations of textbook concepts and practice problems, and eventually incorporated it into its paid platform, Quizlet Plus. [23] [24] [25] In November 2022, Quizlet announced a new CEO, Lex Bayer, the former CEO of Starship Technologies. [26]
Silo is a dystopian series of post-apocalyptic science fiction books by American writer Hugh Howey. The series started in 2011 with the short story "Wool", which was later published together with four sequel novellas as a novel with the same name. Along with Wool, the series consists of Shift, Dust, and three short stories. [1]
"Night Surf" was first published in the spring 1969 issue of Ubris magazine. A heavily revised version was published in the August 1974 issue of Cavalier magazine. [1] In 1978, the story was collected in King's first book of short stories, Night Shift. [2] At eight pages long, it is one of King's shortest short stories. [3]
In 2010 Chris de Burgh released an album of songs called Moonfleet & Other Stories featuring a story based on the book. In 2017 the Salisbury Playhouse announced a major new musical adaptation of Moonfleet with book and lyrics by Gareth Machin and music by Russell Hepplewhite. The show ran from 19 April to 5 May 2018. [7] [8] [9] [10]
The first 18 months saw 1,046 copies sell at $3 each, and it took three years to sell the first print run of 3,000 copies, but the book attracted interest from reviewers, leading to television interviews and meetings with literary figures like Saul Bellow. [53] By 1997 Night was selling 300,000 copies a year in the United States.