Talking Volumes with Stephen King and Audrey Niffenegger

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King, one of the biggest-selling writers of all time, has been working on "Under the Dome" for 25 years. He'll talk about it Nov. 18 at the Fitz. (Sold out.) The setup -- a Maine town is cut off from the world by an invisible but impermeable force field -- is simple, but in true King fashion the plot plays out in ways both intricate and diabolical. This giant novel involves more than 100 characters, from an Iraq war veteran to a newspaper owner and three brave children.Appearing with King is his friend Chicago-based writer Audrey Niffenegger, whose debut 2003 novel, "The Time Traveler's Wife," became a runaway bestseller (and is now a movie). Niffenegger's second novel is "Her Fearful Symmetry," a contemporary ghost story about 20-year-old American twin sisters who inherit their aunt's flat in London.