LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
For details regarding specific events please contact the organizers or venues. If you are an organizer or venue and would like to reach out to us please feel free to contact us or submit an event using our submission form. We’d love to hear from you!
- This event has passed.
Plight of the Living Dead
November 29, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
FreeFrom Powell’s website:
Zombieism isn’t just the stuff of movies and TV shows like The Walking Dead. It’s real, and it’s happening in the word around us, from wasps and worms, to dogs and moose – and even humans. In Plight of the Living Dead (Penguin), science journalist Matt Simon documents his journey through the bizarre evolutionary history of mind control. Along the way, he visits a lab where scientists infect ants with zombifying fungi, joins the search for kamikaze crickets in New Mexico, and travels to Israel to meet the wasp that stings cockroaches in the brain before leading them to their doom.
Preorder a signed edition of Plight of the Living Dead: What Real Life Zombies Reveal About Our World and Ourselves