“Summer Update”
Spent most of the summer in training for and writing about the World Series of Poker. Click and see!
In Zone One news, October 18th is the official pub date. Here is a film festival to get you up to speed.
Harper’s ran an excerpt. And a nice interview/update on where I am these days.
The first section of the book is here on Scribd.com
And there have been some kind & early & starred reviews:
Publishers Weekly says: “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.”
Kirkus is also nice, saying: “[H]e sinks his teeth into a popular format and emerges with a literary feast, producing his most compulsively readable work to date. Though there’s enough chomp-and-spurt gorefest to satiate fans of the format, Whitehead transforms the zombie novel into an allegory of contemporary Manhattan (and, by extension, America)...”
And Booklist says that “This diabolically smart, covertly sensitive, ruminative, and witty zombie nightmare prods us to think about how we dehumanize others, how society tramples and consumes individuals, how flimsy our notions of law and order are, and how easily deluded and profoundly vulnerable humankind is. A deft, wily, and unnerving blend of pulse-elevating action and sniper-precise satire.”
Am I coming to your city? The book tour is here. And here are some places where you can pre-order a copy:
Sunday, August 14, 2011