So when I went to college, I wanted to write werewolf novels. I’ve never seen much of a division between so-called genre fiction and literary fiction. Lovecraft that made me want to be a writer. It was reading comic books, and watching horror and science-fiction movies, reading them, H.P. This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
We spoke at New York Comic Con about choosing average narrators rather than heroic ones, making monsters sympathetic, and the persistence of corporate sponsorship in the apocalypse.
But his new book, Zone One, on bookshelves today, an elegaic tale of plague, zombie hunters in New York, and the limitations of efforts to build new societies is the result of Whitehead’s longstanding plans to write a monster novel.
The novelist Colson Whitehead isn’t new to science fiction and speculative fiction - his 1999 debut novel, The Intuitionist, was set in a world of competing schools of elevator inspectors and the dream of a elevator that could take riders to a perfect society.
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