Horror fiction

Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead goes zombie

How did a highbrow MacArthur genius end up writing a book about zombies?

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Studio 360 – Episode 843 – Segment 5 – Horror School

Warm Bodies, Bullet to the Head out in theaters this weekend

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Colson Whitehead’s new book on politics, class and zombies

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‘Bob Edwards Weekend’: Weiner, Romero and Brown

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Ninth-graders Olwethu and Sisipho with a message from Huilen.

School Year Blog: Why Vampire Books Are So Popular Here (Plus: Students Get a Message From a Real-Life Vampire)

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Vampire literature may be losing steam in the U.S. But at COSAT, it’s thriving. One student explains why she loves vampire books so much — and receives an unexpected message from a real-life vampire.

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Colson Whitehead Goes Zombie

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Colson Whitehead is one of America’s most respected novelists, the author of The Intuitionist and Sag Harbor and a MacArthur ‘genius.’ But his new book goes pretty lowbrow. Zone One is about zombies – and not some postmodern metaphorical zombies.

Colson Whitehead on ‘Zone One’ and Zombies

Colson Whitehead has famously tackled topics like a young man’s coming of age in “Sag Harbor,” the social elevation of African Americans in “The Intuitionist,” and America’s industrial age in “John Henry Days.”  In his new novel, the award-winning Whitehead goes just as large, maybe even larger, with a look at how an imaginary apocalypse might […]

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Zombieland, UK

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For the Geo Quiz we’re looking for a British city that’s standing in for the ‘City of Brotherly Love’

DEAD-icated Scientists

Zombies could destroy our society unless we unleash our most powerful weapon: Mathematics.