Cleverly written article ,and peak inside the work of Paul Constant.I can't wait to read!!!!!!

oops, the article written by Paul Constant,the books written by Colson Whitehead.My favorite prose found in Constant's article: 'He peered into the glassed-off guts of the machine, as still as the dust, bent paper clips, overnight-mail packaging, and other assorted leavings in the room.' BRAVO!!!!!

Paul, I'm with you 100% on the stoner college friend thing. Zombies stopped being about consumerism probably twenty minutes after that movie was released. But this reminded me of something that occurred to me not too long ago* and I'm curious to see if you agree: The Road is basically a zombie movie, only where zombie movies are typically uplifting and exciting The Road is depressing and soul-crushing.

I know that there are no undead monsters in The Road, but there are flesh-eaters. Also, this...

"The joke that Whitehead pulls with Zone One is making Mark Spitz and the band of survivors as mundane as we are. They're not heroes—they're just a sanitation crew, cleaning up long after the heroic Marines have paraded through the city and done all the hard work."

...could easily be reworked for The Road (only, of course, more brutally, because it's Cormac McCarthy): his joke is that the protagonist (the man) is just as corrupt and scared and inept as we are, and likewise is not a hero. Do you think that fits? Am I taking it way too far?

*Coughshamelessselfpromotioncough: http://rustbeltphilosophy.blogspot.com/2…