Book Talk: 'Apocalypse Blues: 2 Authors, 2 Views' (Pasadena Public Library) (May 13)
By: Robert Diamond May. 11, 2019
Event: Book Discussion and SigningApocalypse Blues: Two Authors, Two Views
Date: May 13
Time: 7pm (Doors open at 6:30pm) - 9pm
Place: Pasadena Public Library, Central Branch - Donald R. Wright Auditorium
285 E. Walnut Street, Pasadena 91101
Phone: (626) 744-4041Thomas Allbaugh, author of the dark humor novel, "Apocalypse TV," and Dahlia Schweitzer, author of "Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End of the World," will present two views - one fiction and one nonfiction - of Apocalypse Anxiety in the 21st Century."Apocalypse TV" focuses on a mild-mannered intellectual professor at a Christian college who has to fight for his life as a participant in the reality TV game show, Race to the Apocalypse. Forced to struggle with reality, religion, and his own authenticity, will he take up arms against the troubles unleashed upon him by unseen production forces or end up slaughtered as the show's designated "sacrificial lamb"?"Going Viral" considers how fictional outbreak narratives and official sources have influenced the ways Americans relate to their neighbors, perceive foreigners, and regard social institutions. This book examines how outbreak narratives both excite and horrify us, conjuring our nightmares while letting us indulge in fantasies about fighting infected Others. "Going Viral" raises provocative questions about the cost of public paranoia and the power brokers who profit from it.
Press Kit: http://apocalypsetvepk.blogspot.com"Schweitzer explores how popular cultural narratives in official media sources heighten and perpetuate the fears created through the outbreak narrative." – Rebekah Buchanan, New Books Network ReviewGoing Viral |Author Dahlia Schweitzer | Publisher Rutgers University Press | Published March 2018 | Paper $27.95 | 978-0-8135-9314-2 | 256 pages and 35 B&W photographs | 6 x 9Website: http://www.thisisdahlia.comAvailable at Amazon.
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