Columns
Tuesday, March 31 2009
Chok(ing) Onscreen and In Print
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.
Wednesday, March 21 2007
Palahniuk's Fight Club Punch: We Never See It Coming
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.
Reviews
Wednesday, May 23 2007
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk
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.
Tuesday, June 8 2004
Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories by Chuck Palahniuk
Once you've looked at people on a close enough level, you can't pretend to believe in normality any longer.
Thursday, October 9 2003
Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
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.'"
Sunday, January 1 1995
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
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.'"
Blogs
Monday, May 10 2010
Chuck Palahniuk: Just Shut Up
Postmodern novelist and essayist Chuck Palahniuk is the literary equivalent of a shock jock.
News
Wednesday, November 23 2011
Chuck Palahniuk’s latest an empowering inferno
PORTLAND, Ore. — Chuck Palahniuk’s hand is sore. Not long before we met for an interview in late October, the bestselling writer had been autographing…
