Lecturer, Margaret Atwood, Examines the Depth of Zombies

KAMLOOPS (CUP) — Zombies are reflective of the concerns of today’s mass society, so says 2013 Common Voices lecturer Margaret Atwood. The 73-year-old Canadian author was brought in by Thompson Rivers University Students’ Union (TRUSU) to speak to the students of TRU and community of Kamloops on Feb. 15.

“I am a mere scribbler, that means I’m a generalist. I’m an omnivore. Sort of like a bear. Read anything, eat anything, not averse to garbage,” Atwood said. “I thought that what you would really like to hear about tonight, was zombies.”

And with that Atwood spent more than an hour meandering through a series of thought processes, often connecting them to zombies in a talk she titled, “An Evolution of Zombies: Their Past and Future.”

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