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It shouldn’t be necessary, ‘cos this week’s guest is an absolute literary icon. Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, Haunted, Lullaby, Choke, and last year’s Not Forever, But For Now – a writer who helped shape the nihilism and extremity of 90s and noughties fiction. The man who makes people faint with his short stories.
He’s here, talking to us!
In this conversation Chuck and I roam all over the blasted map of his fiction. We talk about transgression and provocation, about extremity in life and story, about bad reviews, toxic interviews and toxic masculinity. And yes, we talk about “Guts.”
This was a privilege. I hope you are shocked and appalled.
Enjoy!
Other books mentioned:
Fight Club (1996) by Chuck Palahniuk
Haunted (2005), by Chuck Palahniuk
Lullaby (2002), by Chuck Palahniuk
Diary (2003), by Chuck Palahniuk
Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey (2005), by Chuck Palahniuk
Adjustment Day (2018), by Chuck Palahniuk
Cold Comfort Farm (1932), by Stella Gibbons
Rosemary’s Baby (1967), by Ira Levin
“The Lottery” (1948), by Shirley Jackson
Interview with the Vampire (1976), by Anne Rice
Geek Love (1989), by Katherine Dunn
Most Delicious Poison: From Spice to Vices – The Story of Nature’s Toxins (2023), by Noah Whiteman
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (2021), by Eric LaRocca
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