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PAUL LEWIS: A is for Asteroids, Z is for Zombies: A Bedtime Book about the Coming Apocalypse
November 4, 2017 | 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
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The Boston Public Library is pleased to host local author/Boston historian PAUL LEWIS.
Paul Lewis’s fascination with gothic fiction and horror films prepared him to publish “The Funeral Game” in Crazy Magazine while he was in graduate school, coin the word “Frankenfood” at the dawn of the GMO era, and write A Is for Asteroids, Z Is for Zombies as gallows humor for a time of global threats. In the spirit of taking these threats seriously while also finding relief from the anxiety they provoke, Lewis asks, “If you can’t laugh about the Apocalypse, what can you laugh about?”
Lewis is an English professor at Boston College, president of the Poe Studies Association, and the author of Cracking Up: American Humor in a Time of Conflict.
Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.