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...Chuck Palahniuk isn't a rock star, but he could be. The author of Fight Club, Choke and Invisible Monsters gives readings in concert halls, has been known to throw inflatable sex dolls into the audience and inspires fans to tattoo his name onto their arms. The novelist's official fan site boasts over 47,000 crazed Palahniuk-heads who openly refer to themselves as the Cult and sell book-tour T shirts the way music acts sell concert tees. His latest book, Pygmy, follows the terror plot of an adolescent foreign-exchange student/secret assassin as he infiltrates and tries...
...behind the art and the conservation behind the exhibit. Ongoing, The Museum of Fine Arts, $23 with student ID 3. Are you a member of “Fight Club”? Don’t tell us! (Keep rules 1 and 2, space monkey.) Instead go meet Chuck Palahniuk, the author behind Tyler Durden, at a discussion of his new book “Pygmy.” Tickets are available at the Harvard Book Store. Tuesday, May 5, 6 p.m., The Brattle Theater, $5 general admission / $27 for book signing. 4.For those who are oh-so-excited it?...
...saying I’m the son of Jesus Christ?” he asks. “More like His half-clone,” she replies.There are a handful of delirious revelations like this in the film—which is adapted from the Chuck Palahniuk novel of the same name—and they threaten to push “Choke” over the precipice of the adventurous and into the realm of the dubious and downright ridiculous. For most viewers, this particular moment is one too many. As a screenwriter, Gregg doesn?...
...would like to know how to make nitroglycerine, properly hold a lobster fork, set up scams, form vast and intricate conspiracy plots, and travel to the depths of human depravity, then I suggest you read Chuck Palahniuk. The man who convinced the world that Fight Clubs existed has returned with his newest work, “Rant.” With a plot somewhere between “V for Vendetta,” “The Matrix,” and “28 Days Later,” “Rant” is sure...
...Coupland (who published Generation X in 1991), the last novelist who on a moonless night could be taken for the V.O.A.G., the trail goes cold. Not quite abruptly--for a few twinkly, magical minutes interest swirled around Wallace, and Eggers (more for his memoir than his fiction), and Chuck Palahniuk--but, ultimately, definitively...