Stephen King weighs in on the practice of blurbing ("A tour de force!") for Entertainment Weekly. ''Never blurb a book you've read and never read a book you've blurbed," advises his "cynical writer acquaintance." And did you know? The back-of-cover blurb, these days, is less about how good the book is and more about who the...

Scary book writer Stephen King and growly singer John Mellencamp have crafted some sort of stage musical. The Southern gothic tale will premiere in Atlanta, and hopefully lurch it's way up to Broadway. [AP]