"Zone Rogue" Author Michael Jerome Plunkett in conversation with Bret Lott
Schedule
Wed, 24 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
160 King St, Charleston, SC 29401, United States | Charleston, SC
Buxton Books is excited to welcome author- and former Buxton Books bookseller- Michael Jerome Plunkett to the bookstore for an evening celebrating his debut novel, Zone Rogue.Michael will be joined in conversation by College of Charleston professor and fellow author Bret Lott who had a front row seat to the writing of the book. Together, they'll discuss process and give us insight into the research and writing of Zone Rogue.
Please join us for this very special author event which promises great conversation along with the introduction to a great new novelist (all bias aside).
This is a free, in-store event. To let us know you're coming, please RSVP here: https://www.buxtonbooks.com/events/3440520250924
About Zone Rogue:
We are démineurs. We dismantle bombs. Ferrand Martin and his team of démineurs spend their days in the ruined fields of Zone Rouge on the periphery of Verdun, France where they clean up the artillery and explosives used in World War I. One bullet, one bit of shrapnel, one bomb at a time. The work, they say, is not measured in days, months, or years, but in generations. It’s taken a century to get this far, and it will take many more centuries to complete. One morning, a routine call to pick up a half-buried artillery shell turns out to be much more than just a single missile: they discover a human skeleton, fully intact. Ferrand and his fellow démineurs dig deep into poisoned soil to reveal the past is rarely ever distant from the present. This startling discovery kicks off a series of events that sees the usually desolate Zone Rouge teem with activity as academics, politicians, and locals all wrangle over the legacy of the War and what it means to remember. Zone Rouge is a brilliant reimagining of the Sisyphus myth suffused with our modern anxieties over war, climate, class, and the ghosts of our pasts.
About Michael Jerome Plunkett:
Michael Jerome Plunkett is a writer from Long Island, a Marine Corps veteran, and former EMT. He is the Co-founder and Executive Director of the Literature of War Foundation and host of The LitWar Podcast. His writing has appeared in The War Horse, Leatherneck Magazine, and other publications. Zone Rouge is his debut novel.
This is a free, in-store event. To let us know you're coming, please RSVP here: https://www.buxtonbooks.com/events/3440520250924
