Advance copies are out in the wild. A few things:

If you are hung up on labels, yes, the book is “another genre outing” for me. Zone One is a zombie novel in the way The Intuitionist is a detective novel.

My childhood tutelage in the apocalypse came from movies, as opposed to books. A film festival covering the master texts for Zone One would screen the following (1956-1985):

The first Romero Trilogy (Sane Black Man Vs. The Crazy White People)

John Carpenter’s Urban Blight (Assault on Precinct 13, Escape From New York)

Heston as Last White Guy on Earth (Planet of the Apes, Omega Man, Soylent Green)

S.A.V.’s - Sick Armored Vehicles (Damnation Alley, The Road Warrior)

My Lover, My Monster (Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956, 1978)

Mr. Dan O’Bannon (Alien, Return of the Living Dead)

‘70s NY as Crucible of the Soul (Dog Day Afternoon, Taxi Driver, The Warriors, et al.)

Are they trendy fast or classic slow? I like my zombies like I like my women: slow and implacable.

Harper’s is running an excerpt in their July/August issue.

You can pre-order a copy at your favorite store.

I wrote a piece for Publisher’s Weekly about internet distraction/wretchedness.

I did this unlikely thing for Vogue. Weird!

Catch you in a few months. As always, you can find me at @colsonwhitehead.