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Novelist Stephen King says it was a review he wrote of “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” that led to his hiring as a monthly columnist by Entertainment Weekly. But in his first piece for the magazine, he says he isn’t sure whether the editors were responding to the quality of his work or the fact that it was written in longhand.

“For all I know,” King writes, “they might have thought it would be good to have at least one writer on tap who could turn in copy even after a nuclear pulse wiped out the hard drives on all the laptops.”