A "sweeper" nicknamed after Mark Spitz picks off "skels" in Manhattan in that novel by this author, which is set after the zombie apocalypse.
This author described traveling around London with a companion app programmed with W. G. Sebald's personality in an account of the Olympics for Grantland.com, "Hard Times in the Uncanny Valley." In one of this author's novels, the protagonist intercedes for Ned the Copy Boy, a former office employee Xeroxing a picture of a butt forever. A "sweeper" nicknamed after Mark Spitz picks off "skels" in Manhattan in that novel by this author, which is set after the zombie apocalypse. This former television columnist for the Village Voice responded to a patronizing review by James Wood by parodying Wood's style in the essay "Wow, Fiction Works!" Lila Mae Watson searches for the "black box" in a novel by this author about warring elevator inspectors, and two slaves flee from Ridgeway on a literal train beneath the earth in his most recent book. For 10 points, name this contemporary novelist of Zone One, The Intuitionist, and The Underground Railroad.
This author described traveling around London with a companion app programmed with W. G. Sebald's personality in an account of the Olympics for Grantland.com, "Hard Times in the Uncanny Valley."
Colson Whitehead