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King novella for Esquire

12.06.07 |

A new Stephen King thriller will be published in its entirely in the July issue of Esquire, reports the Examiner. "The Gingerbread Girl," a 21,000-word novella covering 23 pages, will arrive at newsstands Tuesday.

"Over the last year, we've been trying to breathe life back into magazine fiction," Esquire editor-in-chief David Granger said in a statement. "The best way to do that is to publish nothing other than event fiction-stories that have something in addition to their literary merit to call attention to themselves."

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