The Writer’s Voice: Colson Whitehead on Zone One, Lev Grossman on The Magician King and Mat Johnson on Pym
Saturday, Nov. 19, 12:30 p.m., Auditorium (Building 1, 2nd Floor, Room 1261)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead's novel, Zone One (Doubleday, $25.95) is a zombie-horror story, which also serves as a pop-culture, satirical send-up. Mark Spitz and his squad of three ‘sweepers’ move through Zone One of lower Manhattan, a walled-off enclave scheduled for resettlement in the aftermath of a zombie plague. "A fresh take on survival, grief, 9/11, AIDS . . . and the many other disasters . . . that keep a stranglehold on our fears,” says Publisher Weekly in its starred review. Whitehead, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award and Pulitzer Prize, is the author of the novels Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist,John Henry Days, and Apex Hides the Hurt.
Lev Grossman
The Magician King (Viking, $26.95), is Lev Grossman’s sequel to his highly praised fantasy novel, The Magicians. When a recreational hunting adventure takes a dark turn, Quentin and his old friend Julia charter a magical ship and set off on a quest to the wild outer reaches of their kingdom. But their pleasure cruise becomes a disaster when the two are unceremoniously dumped back into the last place Quentin ever wants to see: his parents’ house in Chesterton, Massachusetts. Grossman is the book critic for Time magazine.
Mat Johnson
In Mat Johnson's novel, Pym (Random House, $24.00), a professor of African American studies devises a mission to find the lost, black-inhabited island near Antarctica described in Poe's only novel. They discover that something else described in Poe's narrative is also real: giant, yeti-like, albino humanoids living in large colonies below the ice in Antarctica. "Funny, insightful...Pym is a death-defying adventure,” says Booklist. Johnson is the author of the novels Drop and Hunting in Harlem, the nonfiction novella, The Great Negro Plot, and the graphic novels, Incognegro and Dark Rain.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Auditorium (Building 1, 2nd Floor, Room 1261)
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