19.2: Zone One post-read: Depression, Surviving the Apocalypse, and New York City in fiction

2019-10-29

Coming at you in person, Matt & Adrian sat down in the same room to record an episode about Colson Whitehead's post-apocalyptic literary novel, Zone One (https://amzn.to/2MR1hZT). We loved this book, and had in particular have a lot to say about its relationship to other apocalyptic literary fiction, the ways the novel discusses, analogizes, and interacts with depression & PTSD, and New York City in literature and reality. Other works mentioned: * Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead * White N...

Coming at you in person, Matt & Adrian sat down in the same room to record an episode about Colson Whitehead's post-apocalyptic literary novel, Zone One (https://amzn.to/2MR1hZT).

We loved this book, and had in particular have a lot to say about its relationship to other apocalyptic literary fiction, the ways the novel discusses, analogizes, and interacts with depression & PTSD, and New York City in literature and reality.

Other works mentioned:

* Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
* White Noise by Don DeLillo
* Cosmopolis, dir. by David Cronenberg
* 10:04 by Ben Lerner
* California by Edan Lepucki
* Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson
* Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
* The New & Improved Romie Futch by Julia Elliott

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