![]() King is calling in from his house in Maine, just a couple of weeks after traveling to Foxborough, Massachusetts, to see his first-ever Rolling Stones concert. I’m not George Orwell, and this book isn’t 1984. But I don’t want to force my worldview on people. ![]() ![]() “Fiction has foreseen Trump before,” says King, “always as a nightmare. This isn’t the first time a King book predicted the political future: His 1979 book The Dead Zone was about a Trump-like aspiring president threatening global apocalypse if he took office. ![]() “I can’t help but see similarity between what’s going on in The Institute and those pictures of kids in cages,” says King. But The Institute - out September 10th and centered on a 12-year-old boy stolen from his parents in the night and locked up in a mysterious facility - is likely to remind readers of certain immigration policies. Donald Trump was still months away from being elected president when Stephen King began writing his new novel. ![]()
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