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Awesome — I just confirmed with China Miéville that he’ll be here at KU on the 24th of this month, doing a guest lecture on lit-crit as part of the Richard W. Gunn Memorial Lecture series at Alderson Auditorium.

found out about it from in the English Department yesterday — China hadn’t mentioned it, because the last time we saw each other, I was living in NYC!

So I dropped him an email, revealed that we’re now out here, and we’re now waiting to see what his schedule is going to be, in the hopes of getting some time to hang out a bit.

Woot!

Never a good sign when business stuff is causing stress even before there’s money involved….

How the hell did I miss this?

Last month, AMC announced they’re doing a TV series based on The Walking Dead.

Sure enough, the channel behind Mad Men is going to do a TV series adaptation of the “zombie movie that doesn’t end” — the graphic novel series about trying to live after a zombie apocalypse.

Frank friggin’ Darabont (Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile) is directing the pilot. He’s already done an amazing job with people-struggling-in-a-supernatural-apocalypse before, with his brilliant version of The Mist, so I think he’s perfect for the job.