Chok(ing) Onscreen and In Print

By Jennifer Makowsky

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. [31 March 2009]

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

By Savannah Schroll Guz

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. [21 March 2007]

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Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk

By Katie Haegele

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. [23 May 2007]

Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories by Chuck Palahniuk

By Stephen Rauch

Once you've looked at people on a close enough level, you can't pretend to believe in normality any longer. [8 June 2004]

Diary by Chuck Palahniuk

By Harry H. Long

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.'" [9 October 2003]

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.'" [1 January 1995]