I had a long and lovely talk about the project with Matt and Simon of Kingsize, a Stephen King podcast based in the UK. The episode is called “Insights With Stephen King scholar Vincent Neyt”. It can be found on all podcast platforms, or via this link:
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Pennywise’s First Public Appearance was in 1980
The first ever public appearance of Pennywise the Dancing Clown was on the evening of the eleventh of November, 1980, six years before the publication of IT. David Morrell, the author of First Blood (1972) and professor of American Literature at the University of Iowa (UI) at the time, had invited King to speak and read at the Macbride Auditorium in Iowa City.*
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