Episode 09
Season 04
Air date: 11/2/2011, 2 PM CST
On this Lit Show, co-host Ben Mauk speaks with Colson Whitehead about his new novel, Zone One
Whitehead is the author of the novels Sag Harbor, Apex Hides the Hurt, John Henry Days, and The Intuitionist, as well as a book of essays, The Colossus of New York. He lives in pre-apocalypse New York City.
Whitehead’s reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Harper’s and Granta. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, and a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.
Publishers Weekly says about Zone One: “Whitehead dumpster dives genre tropes, using what he wants and leaving the rest to rot, turning what could have been another zombie-pocalypse gore-fest into the kind of smart, funny, pop culture–filled tale that would make George Romero proud.”
Whitehead read at Prairie Lights on Friday, October 28th at 7 PM.
