Articles tagged "chuck palahniuk"

Column: The Box Office Belletrist

Chok(ing) Onscreen and In Print

by Jennifer Makowsky

[31.Mar.09] :. Whether served up on the page or on the screen, this is an intimate assessment of a twisted mother/son relationship with plenty of sardonic humor and scathing satire.

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Books Review

You Do Not Talk About Fight Club by Read Mercer Schuchardt (ed.)

by Derek Beres

[11.Sep.08] :. Using Sartre and superstring theory as a foundation, Vacker adds a voice to the continuation of Palahniuk’s theme, which deals, essentially, with the will to live -- and more importantly, how to live.

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Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk

by Katie Haegele [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[23.May.07] :. Chuck Palahniuk's new book is a novel, of course, but it's amazing -- it's written like an oral history, with a complicated matrix of characters and events.

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Re:Print

Palahniuk brings the pain again in Rant

by Preston Jones [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[11.May.07] :. Raw and unblinking, Chuck Palahniuk’s novels often feel like primal scream therapy, unloading into the void and holding back very little. His deadpan, withering social commentary has spawned...

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Column: Page Turner

Palahniuk’s Fight Club Punch: We Never See It Coming

by Savannah Schroll Guz

[21.Mar.07] :. With Fight Club, whether he intended to or not, Palahniuk has shown us that fascism can be created right before our eyes, almost invisibly, and we won’t even see it happening.

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Books Review

Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories by Chuck Palahniuk

by Stephen Rauch

[8.Jun.04] :. Once you've looked at people on a close enough level, you can't pretend to believe in normality any longer.

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Diary by Chuck Palahniuk

by Harry H. Long

[9.Oct.03] :. What's transpiring is equal parts incisive satire and artistic shell game from an audacious writer whose weakness is his emotional detachment from his characters and situations. Getting involved would not violate the rules of satire, although it might fly in the face of postmodern 'cool.'"

 

Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

by Kevin Devine

In an interview with 'PopMatters', Chuck Palahniuk talks about his new novel 'Choke', Nine Inch Nails, dissecting cadavers, his favorite writers, creating instant ancient relics, and why it's not such a bad thing to be known as 'the 'Fight Club' guy.'"