BookPeople hosts a reading tonight for local author BJ Burrow, whose novel The Changed is about an ordinary guy who becomes a leading agent in the fight for undead rights. You know what that means, right? Zombies at BookPeople!
Publishers Weekly calls The Changed a “creatively amusing riff on zombies from the zombies’ perspective” with “plenty of charm,” and the book is supplemented by a faux website endorsing the “It’s Not the End of the World, It’s Just Zombies” political party. In the same vein, the BookPeople event is being hyped as a “Zombie Rights Rally.” Surely that means we’ll see zombies in the flesh. Rotting flesh, that is.
The shenanigans start tonight (Jan. 22) at 7pm.
This article appears in January 22 • 2010.
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A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Kimberley has written about film, books, and pop culture for The Austin Chronicle since 2000. She was named Editor of the Chronicle in 2016; she previously served as the paper’s Managing Editor, Screens Editor, Books Editor, and proofreader. Her work has been awarded by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for excellence in arts criticism, team reporting, and special section (Best of Austin). The Austin Alliance for Women...
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