Author Interviews 9:28 am Fri July 20, 2012  When Zombies Attack
Lower Manhattan  <p>Colson Whitehead is a 2002 recipient of the
MacArthur Fellowship. His writing has also appeared in
<em>Salon, The Village Voice, </em>and <em>The New York
Times</em>. </p> Credit Erin Patrice O'Brien / Doubleday
Originally published on Thu November 8, 2012 10:55 am  A zombie
plague has wiped out 95 percent of America. Camps of survivors
band together in pockets across the country, waiting for small
squadrons of human "sweepers" to inch their way across major
cities, destroying the remaining zombie-like creatures hiding
out in office buildings and shopping malls.  But now the human
sweepers have to tackle their biggest challenge yet: clearing
the undead from Lower Manhattan.  That's the setup of Colson
Whitehead's post-apocalyptic zombie novel Zone One. The book
tracks a team of human "sweepers" as they make their way through
a walled-off area of New York City over the course of three
days.  Team leader Mark Spitz must stay c