Mark spitz zone one6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Although the ambling, rotting hordes are still here, this is a night of the living dead lit by melancholy and nostalgia rather than violence and terror. Of course, we should have known that Whitehead, the 41-year-old MacArthur Foundation “genius,” wouldn’t do the zombie walk in lock step with George Romero, but what’s most surprising about “ Zone One” is how subtly he reanimates those old body parts for a post-9/11 world. It sounded like another gift from the gods of Halloween, right up there with Justin Cronin’s decision to stop writing lovely, unread novels and give us a bang-up vampire saga. T his spring, word that Colson Whitehead was working on a zombie story spread through literary circles faster than a flesh-eating super virus. ![]()
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