7/8/2023 0 Comments Colson whitehead zombie"And I remember being like, 'Mommy, what are they doing to that woman?' And her being like, 'It's a comment on society.' So I think it's helped my work, even if it wasn't entirely appropriate." Whitehead was introduced to serious, adult horror movies at a young age, including "A Clockwork Orange" as a 10-year-old. "Until I was in college, I wanted to write the black 'Shining' or the black 'Salem's Lot.' If you took any Stephen King novel and put 'the black' in front of it, that's what I wanted to do." "I always knew I'd write a horror novel eventually," he tells Kurt Andersen. Whitehead reads a scene from the book, in which the protagonist remembers walking in on his parents in flagrante as he sees a more horrifying encounter take place. The coup is that the book is chilling, funny, and smart all at the same time. It's the real deal, with brains being eaten and the living going to war against the undead. It's about zombies - and not some postmodern metaphorical zombies. But his book, "Zone One"gets pretty lowbrow. Colson Whitehead is one of America's most respected novelists, the author of "The Intuitionist" and "Sag Harbor,"and a MacArthur genius.
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