I always had an extremely vivid imagination, so trying to tell myself, “Oh, don’t worry about it, that’s just a movie, it’s all fake” didn’t exactly lull me to sleep. My parents were out, and I snuck in to watch cable TV, and I stumbled across an Italian cannibal zombie movie. It came from accidentally stumbling across a zombie movie when I was 12 or 13 years old. How did your fascination with zombies begin? Although his characters are no longer flesh-eating corpses, the book is, he says, “another survival book, pure and simple.” Moment speaks to Brooks about how to survive everything, from zombie attacks to nuclear war to 21st-century life. Minecraft: The Island takes place within the world of the famed video game, played by more then 40 million people every month worldwide. But in his latest book, he has (mostly) left his zombie villains behind. “He’s a zombie laureate,” The New York Times once described him, “our nation’s lone zombie public intellectual.” In 2003, Brooks published his first book, The Zombie Survival Guide, his follow-up novel, World War Z, sold more than a million copies and became the basis for the 2013 film of the same name starring Brad Pitt.īrooks’s preoccupation with apocalyptic scenarios led him to explore a more practical path: He uses zombie stories to help illustrate ways that institutions can prepare for large-scale disasters, and he is currently a fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point. M ax Brooks, the only child of comedian Mel Brooks and the late actor and director Anne Bancroft, is best known as the world’s foremost zombie expert.
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